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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: middle, title: wisdom or something like it in misc. flash fiction
I was born with an odd number of wisdom teeth, literally-and-figuratively odd. Three. I’ve been told that’s rather rare, that most people are born with two or four wisdom teeth, sometimes none a...
m4 in idea barrages
I have like ten ideas about the Ben Folds Five album cut “Jackson Cannery” but obscurity is no aid to comedy. A parody about a lich and it’s “and I’ve got my phylactery”? Mash it up with Jam...
m2 in idea barrages
Oh no! The only frozen treat the truck sells is vegan tofutti pops! Goddamn the Good Humourless Man! You will cover Rush songs in a death metal style as TOM SLAYER. Did we ever get a...
f28 in idea barrages
Doing something terrible and then defending yourself with “well, other people have gotten away with it before, so I should be able to as well, it’s only fair!” is the rock-bottom argument fo...
prompt: quick, title: let it go this too shall pass in misc. flash fiction
Magic didn’t just simply come into the world, it ran rampant. The discovery or rediscovery of it, not as a subtle occult force that could be mistaken for coincidence or confidence tricks, not as...
feb 26 in idea barrages
Why call them “final exams” when you could call them “the testival”? The Fast and the Curious George”. That’s it. That’s that pitch. She’s a 10 but will only address you as “MORTAL!”...
f24 in idea barrages
Why say “atomic half life” when you could say “shrinkflation”? A biting satire of all novelty records called “It Was The Monsters’ Thanksgiving”. A retro video-game chip-tune band ca...
f22 in idea barrages
The Nicholson Joker whispering to you seductively “wait’ll they get a load in ME!” Why say “the drinks are on the house” when you can say “roof beer”? Repelling Amish Superman with h...
f20 in idea barrages
Skeet Ulrich IS Stanley Kowalsky IN “A Skeetcar Named Desire”. The only person who jumps to championship conclusions after just a little success faster than a Jets fan is a Knicks fan. H...
prompt: touch, title: more powerful than in misc. flash fiction
They called him Powerless Steve. They all did. It didn’t matter if his full legal name was Stephen Baker, someone at that college once called him that once and that nickname just kinda stuck. Th...
f18 in idea barrages
I just keep hearing “will o the wisp” as “we’ll all go west” in this song and I think it says something about me. You can’t just yell OH NO! I MADE A PENGUIN MISTAKE! and not expect peop...
f16 in idea barrages
the Nine Lives Ranch was an open minded community. while it was ruled by a matriarchy of catgirls, it had its place for catboys as well as those who were nyan-binary. Movies are so dark...
f14 in idea barrages
“Double check this stool sample for me” the doctor said, confused and concerned, “this shit doesn’t make any sense.” A great pun, but also a terrible mental image, lay inside the phrase ...
prompt: odd, title: out on a liminal in misc. flash fiction
Mental illness isn’t funny. It’d be cruel to say it is. But it’d also be a lie to say its manifestations, if taken out-of-context, aren’t sometimes as hilarious as they are in-context tragic and...
f12 in idea barrages
Dear Hidden Valley Ranch, Pickle Ranch should’ve stayed Valley Hidden. Whenever some “MRA” or whatnot calls himself an “Alpha” ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS RESPOND “…you’re the robot on Power Ra...
f10 in idea barrages
It’s not the art that tortures the artist, the art is joy. The torture is living in a world ill equipped to value the art. Your best drinking buddy is your swignificant other. Super ...
f8 in idea barrages
A mash of Even The Nights Are Better and the Lavrene and Shirley theme. Comedy childcare injuries are treated in the Peekaboo ICU. It was terrible that Michael Richards was racist as...
her mouth contained pomegranate stained teeth and secrets mostly well-hidden but there occasionally a flash of brilliant red or a hint at some wisdom even the gods themselves held in abject ...
f6 in idea barrages
“And this is my AAA card…” the tow truck drive looked at the card “You’re in the… Agnostics Against Abstinence?” “I’m in the AAA, yes.” So if India has Bollywood, is there a bindipendent...
prompt: gone, title: after the gold rush in misc. flash fiction
The ships were gone, finally gone, having escaped the surly bonds of Earth’s atmosphere and off toward the one theoretically-livable planet within the Proxima Centauri system. Once their stellar...
f4 in idea barrages
A redneck version of Yakov Smirnov called “Jake Whiskey”, as a first draft of the horror that eventually became “Larry The Cable Guy”. The cool new posters for the Phantom Menace re-rele...
f2 in idea barrages
HP but, like, not Harry Potter. Like, Hewlett Packard And The Over-Priced Inks or whatever. A nature show in a ren faire that calls itself Mutual of Omaha’s Feudal Kingdom. An entire...
j31 in idea barrages
Is there any worse sign for an animated film than an ad where they have side by side footage of the stunt-cast non-voice-actor celebrity recording the lead voice? They’re admitting there’s n...
prompt: human, title: the star in our faults in idea barrages
Learning is the first step and it is a necessary one. You gotta learn how to learn. Learning how to unlearn the greed and cruelty foisted upon you by culture and relearning the love you understo...
j29 in idea barrages
To observe the functions of the CERN accelerator, you need to use a collideoscope. So, every area just gets to call their county fairgrounds swap meet “the world’s largest (something) sa...
