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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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key word "inundated" title "oil can" in misc. flash fiction
What do you do when you find that you’ve been rusted into place? What do you do when you’ve lost so much of yourself you don’t even know who you are anymore? Piece by piece replaced, in big chunk...
apr14 in idea barrages
1.) I know Ollie has never seen any of the EVIL DEAD movies, he couldn’t understand him if he did, he’s a dog. However sometimes I look at him and in his eyes I see the phrase “Good boy? Bad boy?...
key word "spring" title "springs eternal" in misc. flash fiction
We have this thing broken in our minds, as women and men, where when things become good, something subconscious starts to assume this is just the way that it is now. The good times will continue ...
apr13 in idea barrages
1.) A movie about vampires flourishing in the total night of mining operations would HAVE to be called “Blood Diamonds”, right? 2.) If you must do something stupid like try and market “A MOUTHWAS...
two hundred years of worth of names of generals and queens and kings gilded into the wall of an ancient palace will not tell you one ten-thousandth about that society as compare...
apr12 in idea barrages
1.) I hope that at Cirque de Soliel, the souvenir stand is called Merch de Soliel. 2.) “Shopaholic” is such a dated judgemental word. They vastly prefer “retail-oriented” these days. 3.) The most...
spring unsprung in poetry
they say that spring is coming but they’ve been saying it for months they said it got here three weeks ago it might not get here until June they say that spring is coming but spring must b...
what you wish for in poetry
let your dim light shine yours is yours and mine is mine I once tried to reflect light too but now I am an untethered moon don’t often show my face before noon that’s the life of an untether...
in the forest of the night in poetry
maybe raging against the dying of the light is entirely missing the point maybe instead sneak around in that darkness start some new fires despite it all instead raging is fun f...
carry that weight in poetry
Before enlightenment, you must go to the well every morning for water. After enlightenment, you must go to the well every morning for water. Before grief, you must go to the well every ...
i've had a few in poetry
if you live a life with no regrets that doesn’t mean you were strong or decisive or or stalwart or brave it means you haven’t learned from anything we change and we grow and we evolve and ...
apr11 in idea barrages
1.) Cut out the middle man, call your band The Indie Darlings. 2.) Is getting paid to snowblow a form of frostitution? 3.) Interestingly, the yearly competition for remembering fictional species ...
apr10 in idea barrages
1.) Maybe raging against the dying of the light is missing the point. Maybe the idea is, sneak around in that growing darkness and start some new fires despite the dying instead. 2.) You know wha...
keyword "friction" title "the night the horrors came" in misc. flash fiction
They ripped one of my arms off, the monsters, and all I could do was stand there, frozen in place, unable to even scream my shock and pain. Loping squishy things, the howling shambling sacs of me...
apr9 in idea barrages
1.) I’ll believe superheroes can fly, I’ll believe film characters can time-travel, I’m no stickler. But despite the fact I’m sure there’s some off-hand reason for why 2040 kids would be nostalgi...
apr8 in idea barrages
1.) Unless there’s some twist to it the trailers don’t show, that new Amy Schumer flick about a good looking woman who isn’t good looking in movie world suddenly believing she’s conventionally su...
ninety-six pieces of paper in poetry
that’s what hope looks like four months of lottery tickets fished out of your wallet out of my ragged wallet eight or ten bucks a week cast into time’s dustbin not because I...
apr7 in idea barrages
1.) Often, the song I will sing to Felix and Ollie is to the tune of the Cheat Commandos theme in the “Homestarrunner” cartoon and it’s just “Good CAT and ADEQUATE Dog! Good CAT and ADEQUATE Dog!...
tactful cactus in poetry
the whole reason she has all of those spines is there’s something that’s sacred inside of her so marvelous and strong such love and lightness inside there to protect if it wasn’t ...
apr6 in idea barrages
1.) Before enlightenment, you must go to the well every morning for water. After enlightenment, you must go to the well every morning for water. Before grief, you must go to the well every mornin...
trouble with truth is it only goes so far only cares how things just are it don’t care on how they feel the truth is a trip sharp sides but a too-blunt tip double-edged sword that’s...
my heart is a magpie lining its nest with all the shiny rocks ebony eyes cannot allow lost chitinous beak can come across caw caw when my heart stumbles over a pebble ...
pineapple express in poetry
what if pineapples are actually eggs laid by the most unfortunate breed of birds ever? cah-caaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! AAAAAAH! AAAAAH! AHHHHH! how good must sex be for the pineapple bird ...
apr5 in idea barrages
1.) Your Rage Against The Machine cover band that reinterprets them all as James Taylor-esque soft rock will be called Beige Against The Machine. It will be… terrible. 2.) Your movie about a poss...
apr4 in idea barrages
1.) Leave it to the fake president to find someone more goddamned evil than Amazon to make them look sympathetic in comparison: himself. 2.) HOT TAKE: “Hearty” tomato soups with big chunks of tom...
