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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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a4 in idea barrages
A Beatles parody about dang ol’ Scantron standardized tests involving the lines “Letter B, Letter B, Letter B, Letter B, At least guess an answer, Letter B”. A new Marvel character with ...
prompt: build, title: the name game in misc. flash fiction
“Jeannie’s Dream Motel” hadn’t always been called that. Who knew how long it’d been there, on a lonely country road through farmlands between Richfield Springs and West Winfield, but she’d no do...
a2 in idea barrages
It’s about a fraternity comprised entirely of loser centaurs and it’s called ANIMAL HORSE. When you need tin cans / to be eaten, man / who you gonna call? / Goat Butlers! It’s not th...
mar31 in idea barrages
A parody of Mama Mia about pasta making called “Semolina”. King Crimson’s Thela Hun Jinjeet nut about Thelma and Louise. They keep trying to make bread and it keeps turning into drug...
mar29 in idea barrages
If you refuse to do good in flawed imperfect systems, you’re not about doing good, you’re about feeling righteous. “Musk” is just one letter away from “Musak”, room-temperature music and...
prompt: blur, title: association by guilt in misc. flash fiction
I’m conflicted about the role I’ve fallen into in, as a lore-keeper for all my home-town’s darkest open secrets, the things that everyone knows if they were there at the time, but sound absolute...
m27 in idea barrages
The California Raisins’ classic rock counterpart, The Allmond Brothers Band. A Star Trek arts and crafts book called “Make It Sew”. So many people declaring 2024 the start of the evi...
m25 in idea barrages
A parody of “Take Me Home Country Roads” for Christmas that starts with the lines “there’s a Santa / yes, Virginia”. Your ability to generate bisecting lines is unparalleled. Remembe...
m23 in idea barrages
I feel like ATMs would’ve picked up even faster if they had used the marketing phrase “Go BANK Yourself!” I’ve never once in my entire life been improved by negative reinforcement, by de...
m21 in idea barrages
He’s Popeye the Sailor Man / He’s doing the best he can / He’d like to see you try / With just only one eye / He’s Popeye the Sailor Man Here’s a cultural mash-up for you to think about:...
Once upon a time, a girl with whom I was deeply-infatuated (but had no romantic interest in me) said I should rent Annie Hall from the local pizzeria/bodega/video rental/narcotic courier service...
m19 in idea barrages
You will name your knife YouTube channel “never a dull moment”. Since Dave Thomas was adopted and Wendy has that bright red hair, head canon that Ronald McDonald secretly fathered Dave...
m17 in idea barrages
I mean, GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER is about an old man killing his wife and trying to cover it up by feigning senile delusions, right? Driving to get Ollie’s insulin, singing Bon...
m15 in idea barrages
It’s the new “Fast Asleep” diet crazy, sweeping Tiktok! You medically induce a coma because you can’t eat while you’re sleeping! It’s just that easy! You’re fasting asleep! Whenever poss...
prompt: serve / title: working titles in misc. flash fiction
That common phrase “Rome wasn’t built in a day” is literally-true as far as the literal truth goes, but the beginning is only one part of a story, and the other half of that truism is that Rome ...
m13 in idea barrages
A pop-punk band called Enragement Ring. Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On A Prayer” except every “Whoa” is replaced by a “Whoa” by Joey Lawrence’s character in BLOSSOM. A reminder of once being ...
m11 in idea barrages
Devo’s “Whip It” being a Doritos ad is both the culmination and refutation of Devo’s legacy, all at once. A gross sell-out and a glorious culmination, simultaneously. We are legion, I suppos...
m9 in idea barrages
A cereal with transparent bran flakes and almond clusters called “Post Nut Clarity”. Randy Newman is a failed attempt at cloning Tom Waits. Here we are, puttin’ the “dung” in “Bildun...
m7 in idea barrages
Why say “friends with benefits” when you can say “smoochachos”? Taylor Swift makes music for women who think it counts as group sex if you fuck on top of her Squishmallows. You eithe...
prompt: normal, title: magnet and steal in misc. flash fiction
Joan Henry was a stylus-driving lass, every day still-driven to creating her art. It wasn’t so much she did it for passion, though drawing certainly was her passion, the issue was she’d literall...
m5 in idea barrages
A magical tow truck? Sounds like winch-craft to me. Why say “string bean wholesaler” when you can say “pod dealer”? So many commercials for prescription medicines end with someone pa...
m3 in idea barrages
Why say “Best Seller” when you can say “Pick Of The Literature”? “Vtuber” doesn’t sound like a word for someone who streams video games with a fake avatar cartoon, “Vtuber” sounds like a...
m1 in idea barrages
Why say “docking” when you can say “Johnson & Johnson”? A murder mystery about the death of a rich big game hunter where no one wants to solve the mystery because everyone is glad he...
prompt: sun / title: pattern-welded damascus in misc. flash fiction
Sitting in the audience of a poetry reading by a handful of brilliant folk, at my tender age of 45, I finally realize something I couldn’t put into concrete word until that very moment and so I’...
fb27 in idea barrages
“Whole grains kids will love!” Yes, Big Granola, because they’re covered in enough chocolate to kill an Oompa Loompa. Any healthfulness is overwhelmed by the bag of sugar. C’mon now. We’re n...
