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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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may 29 in idea barrages
Okay, PENNYWORTH exists, sure, but where’s the grim and gritty prequel about the butler on THE FRESH PRINCE? Like he was Mi5 and had so much blood on his hands, The Crown had to hide him on the...
“Have you ever killed yourself?” Dakota just stared at him, wide-eyed, her very spine reflexively drawing her head further back from him. “I know it’s a weird thing to ask a stranger out loud, bu...
may 27 in idea barrages
It probably wouldn’t be that great of a cocktail taste-wise, but a “whiskey and cola” drink that’s Royal Crown and Crown Royal called “The Reflexive” would be fun as hell, conceptually. “Stea...
may 25 in idea barrages
A circus game called “Whaucamole” where the players have to try and smash rising and falling avocados with mallets and if they score high enough, they win guacamole. You, as the operator, get b...
may 23 in idea barrages
No, the WEIRDEST parody of all time would be of Fiona Apple’s “Criminal” that starts with the line “I’ve been a bad bad Terl / I’ve been reckless on a battlefield called Earth”. Domino rally ...
the little falls stewart's, june 1989 in poetry
we made our own make-my-own sundaes on perhaps ten thousand occasions over the breadth of my Adirondack childhood great heaping glops of caramel sauce even though we said “carmel sa...
may 21 in idea barrages
They’re just gonna keep trying to make Percy Jackson happen, aren’t they? “Until we have the rights to Harry Potter,” some executive says, briefly raising his head from the pile of cocaine, “we...
may 19 in idea barrages
The more events you have a wall with a bunch of company logos that you can have a picture taken against, as if it’s an awards show red carpet, the less they’ll mean. Soon the stars will have th...
prompt: breath, title: mother in (just like) starting over flash fiction
“I mean,” the woman awkwardly corrected herself, “Dad goes by Lennon-Ono, in tribute to my mom, but she passed when I was young, I always felt closer to-” She stopped herself. Why was she being s...
“Awake again. You rally quick.” The shambles of a man didn’t even look up at the voice, reflexes grasping for the bottomless pack, no regard for anything else. It was gone, though, and worse he w...
may 17 in idea barrages
Maybe fundamentalists would be more comfortable with sex ed if he went by his full name, Sexual Edward. If you’re going to make a sitcom about how insane homeowner’s associations are, why not...
may 15 in idea barrages
If Vanilla Ice had made Ice Ice Baby in 2023, it wouldn’t have been “tip to my waitress” it would’ve been “link to my socials”. Look into your heart, young Skywalker, you know it to be true. ...
may 13 in idea barrages
A shirt with a drawing of a drill on it and the phrase “Ceci n’est pas une perceuse”. Honestly, Chatbots probably can’t make popular comedy worse than popular comedy is doing right now. IF PR...
There wasn’t much extraordinary about the person lying where the machine had once been, apart from the fact he’d appeared out of thin air as it exploded. That in-and-of itself was extraordinary, ...
may 11 in idea barrages
The problem with wanting to be a tether between others is it means you’re tethered too. If you want to be a spider feeling all the web’s vibrations, it means you’re stuck on the web. It isn’t n...
may 9 in idea barrages
When I came to realize there are people who use “funny” for radically different ideas, things started to make sense. Some folks call “funny” the feeling they get from having their worldview rei...
may 7 in idea barrages
The trombone is nature’s slide whistle. What would be fun would be PUBLIC SCHOOL DETECTIVE, a P.I. who solves crimes on the strength of otherwise utterly useless knowledge we’re given in Amer...
may 5 in idea barrages
All the Robins form a rock band and go on tour. Dracula shows up backstage after their Romanian show to congratulate them on their performance. “Ah, the children of the Knight,” he says, “what ...
prompt: act, title: beating the odds in misc. flash fiction
In 2025, CERN’s Hadron Supercollider team announced they’d invented a machine to observe a person’s parallel timelines. I couldn’t say how, something-something string theory, anything past interm...
may 3 in idea barrages
You know what would be the beautifully stupidest Marvel - Disney mash-up, though? Spider-Man’s Carnage and Talespin’s Don Karnage. If you try to hide in plain sight by reading THE STRANGER, y...
may 1 in idea barrages
My brain is singing a parody of “Do You Know The Muffin Man” about a shady muffler repair shop. Used to be, the easiest way to rile up someone into anime was to jokingly call it “japanimation...
violet ultra violet in poetry
at the very edge of what is seen violet churns, some soft machine of indigo-glow and purpled gleam beyond it, seen only by the bees those ultraviolet codes in trees bu...
ap29 in idea barrages
Sometimes I wanna have a tiny shred of faith in the film industry, that they’ll eventually stop going with the 1st stupid idea that came to mind, but then I see that they turned the “M” in SCRE...
being there in poetry
there’s not much point running from you are no way you’ll get far not by fame or by feet not by drugs or by car there’s not much point because wherever you might ever stop running that...
Tzar and Tzimmerman in poetry
Bob Dylan never lived in the Empire State Building but back when he was known as King Zim, he did climb it while carrying Joan Baez in one giant meaty hairy hand and scaling the side of t...
