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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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j8 in idea barrages
It’d be about, like, a goth girl detective, like a goth Nancy Drew and it’d be called MORBID CURIOSITY. No one had told me that Lou Barlow from Dinosaur Jr had slowly morphed into a tiny...
j6 in idea barrages
Is there anything sadder in college football than celebrating “bowl eligibility”? Congrats, you won six games, 3 of which were against directional cupcakes. You get to play in a game named ...
j4 in idea barrages
People who decorate for Christmas before Thanksgiving lack elf-control. The worst part of THE LAND BEFORE TIME was how the fat little stubby dinosaur seemed to have a vulgar “o-face” in ...
j2 in idea barrages
You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout. I’m telling you why, Vulcans repress all their emotions. The only way to make William Joel’s “Piano Man” even slightly inte...
dec 31 in idea barrages
It baffles me when folks try to use relationships to change someone instead of going after someone who has the traits they want from the start but I guess that’s our culture. You grab onto w...
dec 29 in idea barrages
When you type “happy b-day!” on social media, my brain reads it as “happy bidet!” I like to believe that somewhere there exists his good twin, a humble and mentally stable man named Kan...
dec 27 in idea barrages
And then there is, of course, Olive’s new-age cousin Essential Oyl. The estate attorney couldn’t help herself, she was so attracted to you, she tried to hold you against your will. T...
song as summary in "sasquatch of los angeles" flash fiction
I was sitting in the Dennys at Sunset and Gower, I was staring in my empty coffee cup. I was thinking that my friend Frank had been lying, he said we’d meet there for a few late-night coffees, b...
a barrage for chrimbo in idea barrages
An Undertale graphic novel would involve comic Sans. Fencers, practice your dodges and jukes against a genuine fainting couch. Now, if you’ve been bad little boys and girls, the Toot...
dec 23 in idea barrages
It’s just vodka, tonic water and blue curaçao. It’s a Vodka Sonic. When someone overvalues possibility against what they have, you say “a bird in the hand’s worth two in the bush”. When ...
dec 21 in idea barrages
Youtube knife nerd videos are the best place to gather stage names. If I’m ever a NASCAR driver, you will know me as “Rust Magnacut”. If we only voted for the person who agreed with us o...
“But… we’re going out in style!” she yelled as she ran into the bedroom, a real Dapper Danielle in her very best suit, throwing her wife’s prettiest sundress onto her, even as she wept upon thei...
dec 19 in idea barrages
Why say he was “killed when he was hit by a car” when you could say he had an “auto immune deficiency”? A movie about class conflict amoungst merpeople called THE GILLED AGE. If you...
the c.e.o. blues in poetry
all the dumbest assholes do cocaine all the dumbest assholes do cocaine how dumb’s a motherfucker gotta be to need to speed up in his brains? all the dumbest assholes do cocaine all the ch...
dec 17 in idea barrages
A software mod can be a real game changer. The real mistake in Space Force was the name. The Air Force isn’t the Sky Force, Space Force should’ve been called The Vacuum Force. That would...
dec 15 in idea barrages
I’d love to read film review very low expectations being barely met. “It wasn’t too long, it was brightly colored, the performers attractive, a fine excuse to purchase children’s snacks in p...
dec 13 in idea barrages
A Ted Danson hosted documentary series about astronomy called “Danson, With The Stars”. The Smurfs theme song but as surf rock. Smurf rock. A spooky bakery called Kneadful Things. ...
prompt: fast, title: off the rails in misc. flash fiction
One of the more interesting holiday traditions to come forth in recent years is “The Polar Express Christmas Train Ride”, where tourist rail services redress one of their leaf-peeping trains wit...
dec 11 in idea barrages
Sometimes when people say “namaste” I honestly hear “nah, I’m gonna stay” and I get terribly confused. You’ll never witness the process of a small cut to your body healing, but every day...
dec 9 in idea barrages
Gravy-making ironically starts with a fond farewell. As with most children’s songs, “Where Is Thumbkin” would be really creepy sung in a slow minor key and horror movies trailers have be...
obvious exegesis in life stuff and misc.
The idea of God being created by powerful men as an example of how we were supposed to treat those powerful men, to their benefit, modeling us how we were supposed to treat our “Betters” in the ...
dec 7 in idea barrages
A magicians’ retirement community in Voilavoila, Washington. Why call it “your ex’s perfume” when you can call it “old bae seasoning”? If you solely drink Labatts and Molson, you don...
prompt: letter, title: the secret chord in misc. flash fiction
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is a lot of things which is fine. Leonard was a poet long before he sang, Cohen appreciated the value of ambiguity. When people leave wanting more, constructing thei...
dec 5 in idea barrages
Next year, you could fill a box with a spooky treat for each day of October and call it a Vladvent Calendar. It’s weird being so old you can remember when Saturday Night Live was funny. ...
dec 3 in idea barrages
Some point in their life, every writer has to ask themselves “am I not finishing this because I’m a perfectionist, am I not finishing this because I’m lazy or am I not finishing this because...
