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I write words, I sometimes get to perform them out, sometimes I'm even paid. And I'm trying to get it right, get it right.
with enough repetition, your flaws become your style
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As the dutiful oldest daughter of an impoverished family, Maria took up the burden of helping with finances, by sneaking across the border to work on the farms of California, sending back everyt...
dec 4 in idea barrages
Being between two radio markets & hearing two classic rock stations both play the same playlists w/ slightly different timings for different local adbreaks, it really breaks the radio ka...
dec 2 in idea barrages
Sometimes I think about how “Faith of the Heart”, the theme to STAR TREK ENTERPRISE, was essentially the hair metal band Warrant’s failed ballad “Blind Faith” with the numbers filed off. ...
nov 30 in idea barrages
Real talk: how many disability fetishists gonna stare directly into the eclipse with just the WEIRDEST boners? The only thing worse than test-marketed-within-an-inch-of-its-life by-commi...
nov 28 in idea barrages
If you enjoy the eclipse because of the aesthetic beauty or the science of it, that’s wonderful, please enjoy it, but let’s not pretend it’s such a rarity. Eclipses are pretty common, it’s j...
nov 26 in idea barrages
When you’re blanketed in thirst traps on social media, that becomes a thirst tarp. I like to think that Baton Rogue has a suburb, to the south, called Couilles Bleu. Let’s stop calli...
nov 24 in idea barrages
People don’t want to just see naked people anymore. We’re all too inured by all the pornography in history at the touch of a button. You gotta adapt. You gotta go value added. You gotta b...
nov 22 in idea barrages
You know what’d be a bonkers cheapie mash-up flick? MARS NEEDS WOLFMEN. Hitting on Swamp Thing with the line “Get off, my lawn!” CAKE BOSS implies the existence of CAKE HUMAN RESOURC...
prompt: name, title: perfect from now on in idea barrages
“No one will ever love you just for your looks,” she told him off-handed once, “you’d better get real-rich or real-interesting if you don’t wanna end up alone.” Was it a joke? Did she even say i...
nov 20 in idea barrages
A D&D game where the big bad is Zach Morris and his eldritch time-stopping powers. Your players are all basically the other Saved by the Bell kids… Screech is an artificer, Lisa’s a glam...
nov 18 in idea barrages
I’ve never been able to tolerate a full episode of SEX IN THE CITY, of course, I don’t even remember if it’s IN THE CITY or AND THE CITY. But it just feels like there would be an entire epis...
nov 16 in idea barrages
We take our antihistamines to stave off the histameanies. Jesus croaked once and came back, that’s amazing, but Kermit the Frog croaks every day and is still walking around, why is there...
nov 14 in idea barrages
A parody of “Once Twice Three Times A Lady” about how we on our fifth instance of winter this year. This short human life is filled with both crushing grief & jawdropping wonder, nei...
prompt: block, title: shadows of what may be in misc. flash fiction
There, on his death-bed, surrounded by his closest followers and assistants, the bishop looked out his window into the starry night-sky and wondered how much longer he’d have there, wondered if ...
nov 12 in idea barrages
My personal favorite synedoche, a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, like when people call all vampires “Draculas”, is when I pretend every lead s...
nov10 in idea barrages
The film HOWARD THE DUCK except the duck costume is, in every frame, replaced by the image of Danny Devito. Not in a duck costume, just normal clothes Danny Devito. But everyone still acts l...
nov8 in idea barrages
A goofily cartoon-y exaggerated version of Buddhism called Karmic Sans. Petition to set the Scarlet Witch’s birthday as June 1st, so that some day someone can insert a sick “Happy birthd...
prompt: paste, title: feel that burn in misc. flash fiction
The Hedonic Treadmill is real. The more empty-pleasures you chase, the more empty-pleasures you’re gonna need and the more it’s going to hurt when you can’t get another even larger empty pleasur...
no 6 in idea barrages
I like to believe that Mr. Potatohead’s first name is Starchibald. Mister Starchibald Potatohead, Esquire. When they tell you you’re superior to some other group, they’re just setting yo...
no 4 in idea barrages
Another good name for a band? “Sexpiration Date”. Whenever Superman shows up to an art reception, he is always disappointed by the metaphorical meaning of “light refreshments”, what with...
no2 in idea barrages
“Fuck me dude” is equally the statement of a horny surfer and a depressed pirate. Why call it “swinger looking for a unicorn” when you can call it “the three-body problem”? No one sa...
halloween in hell barrage in idea barrages
Back in college, before he got into silver and gold mining, he was known as Futon Cornelius. Was “Fred Flintstone” short for “Frederock Flintstone”? Why call it a “tenderizer” when y...
prompt: bus, title: the endangered species in misc. flash fiction
You could’ve cut the tension in their council chambers with a knife. Not some ordinary knife. A cold iron blade, a sword with a silvered edge, a weapon otherwise blessed or cursed to exploit a n...
oct 29 in idea barrages
Just saw a news article where a slumlord called their exploitive abusive slum tenement apartment buildings “multi-family affordable housing”. Bad enough to abuse your renters like that but t...
oct 27 in idea barrages
Remember when Taylor Swift was country and Beyonce did dance pop? The shifting sands of cultural presentation are wild. Training AI to summon deathless eldritch star-spawn would be calle...
