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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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prompt: crush, title: orbits in decay in "sasquatch of los angeles" flash fiction
“Well,” Frank reasoned, hoping to get me out from under my bottomless self-pity for a moment. “Look at it this way. At least you’re not Adam Sandler.” To someone who has never been in or in l...
sept 26 in idea barrages
You know what’d be a fun mash-up? “H.R. Gigerstuf”. In any line of DC Comics collectables, make the villain Gorilla Grodd the rarest, so that somewhere in the world you know someone will...
sept 25 in idea barrages
An astonishingly dumb romantic comedy about two opposing campaign managers falling in love called “Pollster Opposites”. A zombie-themed crime fighter who always introduces himself before...
sept 23 in idea barrages
What is the equal and opposite action to the Maillard reaction? Whatever it is, I’m sure it’s the basic of traditional British cookery. There is no possible reason to create a Buckcherry...
sept 21 in idea barrages
What is the equal and opposite action to the Maillard reaction? Whatever it is, I’m sure it’s the basic of traditional British cookery. There is no possible reason to create a Buckcherry...
prompt: walk, title: it's the wrong way in "sasquatch of los angeles" flash fiction
Distance does funny things to your mind, to your experience of reality. There was this band, this perfectly-mediocre fine-in-the-background dumb-if-you-listen-closely white-boy funk jam band cal...
sept 19 in idea barrages
You walk back into the room. There is a fresh pile of clothes suddenly laying in the middle of the carpet. Either you are about to be seduced or a lightsabre battle just ended. Either is pre...
sept 17 in idea barrages
A version of “All Apologies” from the perspective of Moe from the Three Stooges, if only so that he can be screaming “LARRY!” over and over at the end. “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” not ...
sept 15 in idea barrages
Why say “venereal disease” when you can say “love-sickness”? Nintendo has lost so much money by being too prudish to market Legend of Zelda “It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this!” condo...
sept 13 in idea barrages
Contractions often involve self-fulfilling apostrophes. A series of Halloween commercials for a bread and soup place starring Samuel L Jackson called “Snakes, Au Bon Pain”. An album ...
prompt: fight, title: up up and away in "sasquatch of los angeles" flash fiction
One of Frank’s co-workers on the Walk of Fame, busking photos to wide-eyed tourists as well as hipsters trolling for cheap irony, was a guy they all called “Hollywood Superman”, for relatively o...
sept 11 in idea barrages
Just because some company owns the intellectual property doesn’t mean it owns the way you can interpret it. Worry less about consuming a canon in a way that makes a company money, focus on w...
sept 9 in idea barrages
“Ain’t no LAW says a dog can’t be wireless headphones!” is the perfect trailer line for EAR BUD. It goes without saying but. If you pronounce “girl boss” as “girlb oss”, it sounds li...
sept 7 in idea barrages
They should call crochet meetings “hook-ups”. A mad zoologist takes to the high seas with a crew of primate pirates in PIECES OF APE. Is there anything stupider or more disingenuous ...
prompt: star, title: how do you sleep at night? in misc. flash fiction
I was a very different person when I was a child. I mean, I hope we all change over our lives. It’d be a profoundly boring thing if we all remained constant through this entire befuddling journe...
sept 5 in idea barrages
A Billy Ray Cyrus parody about working in a library: “Can’t date the moms / Can’t date all those cute moms / I just don’t think I’d have a chance / No, I can’t date the moms / The patrons’ r...
sept 3 in idea barrages
The Joker is literally the least interesting romantic partner for Harley Quinn. The cliched plot about trying to replace a missing pet with a nearly-identical pet before the kids find ou...
sept 1 in idea barrages
Hell is people who think other people are hell. Are fishing magazine the main stream media? Talent at Instagram promotion should be called Instability. NFTs were Beanie Babies fo...
aug 30 in idea barrages
If you hide your valuables in false appliances, you can be literally dishwasher-safe. A chewing gum that’s honey flavoured and black and yellow striped called “Bumblegum”. John Franke...
prompt: bottle, title: three plus one in misc. flash fiction
Dorothy, Wendy and Alice, so different on the surface but so very much the same at the end of the day. Each of these lost girls three thrust into worlds beyond their young reckoning, beyond imagi...
aug 28 in idea barrages
LESS “Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea” ENERGY, MORE “All it takes is a vodka flask to turn your Dunkachino into a Drunkachino” ENERGY! The perfect name for a lady Forge Cle...
aug 26 in idea barrages
Now that the guy from Smashmouth is deceased, who gets custody of Guy Fieri? My gut says Nickelback? He’s not churchy enough for Scott Creed, he’s not goth enough for Evan Vesence. I feel lik...
august 24 in idea barrages
It would be wonderful if you learned Spanish but don’t feel hablagated. I wonder if on Howard The Duck’s planet they had a hotel chain called “Nest Western”? Chains & products usi...
prompt: return, title: the candyman could in misc. flash fiction
It was the most exciting day of Charlie Bucket’s life. Of course it was. Growing up poor as dirt, barely having his own surname’s sake to relieve himself in, winning The Golden Ticket contest fro...
aug 22 in idea barrages
If you’re the understudy to the back-up dancers, are you a back-up back-up dancer? I’mma stop calling it a “belly” and call it my “man-curves” and see if the redefinition redeems it as se...
