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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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prompt: jar, title: to catch a phrase in misc. flash fiction
Folks are huge on the concept of The Memory Palace, these days. It isn’t anything new, some earliest version goes back to proto-Greek philosophizers who believed if you wrote everything down, you...
ap27 in idea barrages
Found out there’s a band called “Inhaler”. If they toured with Weezer would they cancel out? Would they annihilate into pure energy? Try to convince someone that the new Tik Tok phrase for bu...
the devil is a gun in poetry
oh dull preacher-man you don’t have to tell this fella bout hell a place that eats men and shits out murder I’ve known that place since I was quite young it’s where my dad worked i...
pocket litany in poetry
were I here to judge I would’ve been born with a pounding gavel and a white powdered wig instead I was born with ears and hands and a mouth that’s too big over these many years I’ve co...
ap25 in idea barrages
If only listening to John Nougat-Mallowmar was physically possible for me, without bleeding from my eyes, ears and a few other places, I could probably whip up a quality parody about My Little ...
ap23 in idea barrages
It’s funny how the British monarchy works now, no longer directly powerful but a useful distraction from the myriad actual problems in the UK. They used to have all the bread, now they’re the d...
ap21 in idea barrages
You won’t be able to put this construction-site simulator video game down, it’s absolutely riveting. If you’re a stripper in northern New York, consider the stage name “Wintry Mix”. For like ...
prompt: medium, title: the medium is the message in misc. flash fiction
Elaine was not a happy medium. It’d been a long time since she’d been happy if she’d ever been happy at all. She’d been miserable for years, from long before her recent situation, running from th...
ap 19 in idea barrages
Still don’t understand how 83% of youtube power couples are a good-looking-but-socioemotionally-stunted woman & a barely-closeted twink just along for the fame ride/maybe because he wants t...
apr 17 in idea barrages
A parody of Madonna’s “Erotic” built around the line “Orthotic, Orthotic, Sound Footwear Is Healing Your Body”. LESS CORPORATE LADDER, MORE CORPORATE M.C. ESCHER 4TH-DIMENSIONAL STAIRCASE TO ...
apr 15 in idea barrages
Kleenex really brings people together. It’s a connective tissue. I just realized that they could’a called 21 JUMP STREET “TALES FROM THE NARC SIDE”. Writing can’t be a bloodletting, because...
apr13 in idea barrages
Nightmares? Oh yeah, they’re terrible. They’re awful but they don’t last. They suck but they pass. Dreams, those are the ones that’ll get you. Dreams stick to your bones, reminding you they are...
prompt: refuge, title: preserves in misc. flash fiction
The notion of a wild-life refuge is wonderful, of course. Humans have managed to really bung up large swaths of this planet, chasing slips of paper that don’t mean anything outside the context of...
apr11 in idea barrages
A junior-fiction mystery novel called ARE YOU THERE, GOD? IT’S ME, MATLOCK. Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. Time may change me but I can’t trace time. Omnia mutantur, nihil interit...
apr9 in idea barrages
Turning the furnace up to 80? That’s just heatinistic. The next morning, after a night of beer-goggles, that’s when you see the truth through the beer-view mirror. A Linkin Park “One Step C...
friday's to-do list in poetry
1.) drop off uncle’s bike at the town pornographer for start-of-spring repairs (the town pornographer is also the town bicycle mechanic. small towns gotta double up.) 2.) order (on-line) ti...
apr 7 in idea barrages
A film about an exclusive equestrian stables outside of Austin called “The Best Little Horse House In Texas”. I hate how people think you mean that Goatse song when you say “Somebody That I U...
prompt: clock, title: blessings, counted in misc. flash fiction
Long before you were even born, when he was barely a teenager himself, your father stumbled simultaneously into the best and worst luck in human history. There was a group of older toughs harassi...
april 5 in idea barrages
A TMBG parody about Barnacle Boy still being a superhero sidekick, even in his sixties, called “Barnacle Man”. January 10th, it’s already Easter in the Stewarts. Poor Thanksgiving and Valenti...
apr 3 in idea barrages
98% of the people that people say are “on the streets” because of bail reform actually should’ve been in a mental health facility years before crime one, but Reagan dismantled the hospitals to ...
april 1 in idea barrages
I’m just enough both a butt-end Gen Xer and a nerd about religious history to wanna name something “The Council of Trent Reznor”. Horror themed restaurants are all about the zombiance. A th...
If we were being optimistic, we could say America is defined by its vast natural beauty, purpled mountains majesty, amber waves of grain, redwood forests, Gulf Stream waters, all that maudlin mus...
mar 29 in idea barrages
What we absolutely don’t need is a ventriloquist puppet with a huge posterior going viral on Tiktok with the name “Thicc Dummy”. 3 AM asks as it always does “How much in your life have you sc...
mar 27 in idea barrages
I feel like the best name for a children’s show teaching English-speaking kids the Spanish language would be “Vitamin Si!” I love when there’s a story about an actor “willing” to go back to a...
mar 25 in idea barrages
I enjoy embracing complexity, paradox, the internal contradictions of humanity as we the each of us contain legions. I revel in the fact that we are never just one thing or the other, there is ...
