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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.
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keyword "feed" title "big fish, little pond" in misc. flash fiction
Henry David Thoreau wrote about the thrills of splendid isolation in the vastness of his New England wilderness in a cabin a mile-and-a-half from town, where he could walk back to the family home...
I can’t wait forever. I can’t, wait forever! I can’t wait, Forever! I can’t wait forever. I can’t wait much longer I’m aching and lonely and broken inside I can’t wait much...
apr26 in idea barrages
1.) Professional wrestling is a series of conflicts… of interest! 2.) If you get together at a cafe to make fun of a charlatan who pretends to talk from the dead so as to exploit the grieving, yo...
In east Hollywood, at the corner of Sunset and Gower, there’s a strip-mall called Gower Gulch. Not everything is glamorous there, of course, most of the people are just trying to get by, not tryi...
apr25 in idea barrages
1.) An Alanis parody built around the line “THERE’S A SHOPP-ING LIST IN MY POCKET AND IT’S WHAT I’M GONNA USE FOR MY LYRICS”. 2.) If your ear falls off, is that deaf leprosy? 3.) It’s a giant vir...
keyword "heart" title "waiting for god" in misc. flash fiction
When Andre Roussimoff’s eyes opened again, he was in the back of a truck in the fields of France, just like when he was young, even though even then he had not been small. He’d been Andre The Gia...
“Dead skin flakes,” she exclaimed, out of nowhere, as she were shouting her last words from a nightmare upon waking, “the answer’s dead skin flakes!” “The answer to what?” “The answer to the end ...
apr24 in idea barrages
1.) We need Superman to show up to help the Mueller investigation so we can call this a Constitutional Crisis On Infinite Earths. 2.) She claimed she was working on her addiction to Beanie Babies...
key word "witness" title "in search of a forever home" in misc. flash fiction
After five years as an alien abductee, I’ve a lot more sympathy for house-pets, I’ll give you that much for free. When I went months without seeing another person, just the big ugly things that w...
apr23 in idea barrages
1.) Oh, The Intercept, you Useful Idiot Putin-shills. “The lawsuit against Wikileaks is an attack on press freedom!” Jesusing Christ, you navel gazing ego-cases. It’s an attack on espionage takin...
apr22 in idea barrages
1.) Any rap song instantly becomes 80% more depressing if you change the reference from Hennessy cognac to Genesee beer. 2.) A DETAIL YOU WISHED WAS ADDED IN A STORY IS NOT A “plot hole”. IT IS A...
apr21 in idea barrages
1.) And, yes, all if you all knew King Crimson like you should, I would write a parody of “Happy Family” about how terrible Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison productions have become. Of course I would...
family tree in poetry
Mother Tiresias Father Gilgamesh Sister Cassandra Brother Coyote Old Uncle Odin Dear Cousin Christ let’s transcend the myth-divide together wouldn’t it be nice?
neutral good in poetry
I’d rather do good than feel right I’d rather help the refugees here now than lead some past or future’s revolution I’d rather follow flawed people trying than have to fight the monst...
the barrage of fort wenny in idea barrages
1.) What did the toreador order at the espresso bar? Cafe OLE! 2.) Wasted away again in Bean Burritoville, looking for that… lost key to the john… 3.) Here’s something interesting: remember when ...
apr19 in idea barrages
1.) Here’s another parody I can’t write because almost no one would both know the song and get the cultural reference: a parody of King Crimson’s “Cat Food” about the video game Shaq-Fu. 2.) HOT ...
key word "phantom" title "grounded" in misc. flash fiction
They said it was the most humane way they had to “deal” with us but some days, I’m not so sure. I mean, I’m glad they didn’t kill me. I’m glad I’m not a guinea pig locked up in some laboratory so...
these trying times in poetry
lullabies and alibis we’re all just trying to get sleep at night alibis and lullabies can’t we just try to rest tired eyes drop our defenses lower the disguise short hellos a...
key word "vision" title "manufacturing intent" in misc. flash fiction
When they announced they’d finally cracked universal translation technology, as had been predicted for decades in pulp science-fiction, near and far the whole Earth rejoiced. Finally, they said, ...
apr18 in idea barrages
1.) She took to cashiering so quickly that it all seemed counter-intuitive. 2.) I hope that the remake of “BJ And The Bear” will be called APE MISBEHAVIN’. 3.) Sneak into a rally of bigots with a...
key word "bright" title "symbiosis" in misc. flash fiction
It’s a mutually-beneficial arrangement for both sides or, to state it more honestly, for the two of the sides that have any say in the matter, anyway. That’s the whole point of making big money. ...
yes you are the one who pulled the trigger but who put that gun into your slender hand who sold you the bullet who fed you your fears? action ...
apr17 in idea barrages
1.) Trump makes you miss when evil was less stupid and knew how to put up a respectable facade. The elder Bush was an oil-profiteer war-monger CIA spy-lord but, God, at least he wasn’t an idiot a...
apr16 in idea barrages
1.) If you didn’t name your Catholic-metal band “weapons of Mass destruction”, you don’t deserve to be the person who invented the genre of Catholic-metal. 2.) At this point, if you wanted to sel...
apr15 in idea barrages
1.) I just realized the ultimate “You Wanna Feel Old?”: there are people on the road, right now, as we type, legally driving cars who were born after the attacks on 9/11/2001. 2.) Many people hav...
