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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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oct 1 in idea barrages
At a horror movie festival, there’s always room for giallo! A rap song about being middle-aged called FUNKY COLD EDEMA. The fact that FIGHT CLUB’s success was so predicated on word-o...
sept 29 in idea barrages
The lesson is never “I need to do this awful thing to others so it never happens to me again”. The lesson is always and will always be “this thing was so awful, I realized it should never ha...
sept 27 in idea barrages
Brain status: mashing up “Chariots of Fire” and “On Top of Old Smokey”. Brain status: fusing satirical political candidate Vermin Supreme and TMNT supporting character Vernon Fenwick int...
prompt: ideal, title: edit the sad parts in misc. flash fiction
If you truly love something, or someone, you can’t just pretend the downsides away. If you only remember the good things, are you really remembering anything at all? Everything’s contextual. Not...
sept 25 in idea barrages
An album of R.E.M. songs covered in the style of Jem and the Holograms called J.E.M. Her family’s classically Michelin starred, his family’s a bunch of molecular gastronomically sous-vid...
sept 23 in idea barrages
Here’s a terrible idea to picture in your head: Jar-Jar Sphinx. A youtube channel where you review hot dogs in a German-accented existentialist monotone called “Wiener Herzog”. Why s...
sept 21 in idea barrages
Why say “video commercial boards at convenience stores” when you can say “counter programming”? In a slightly different universe where Screaming Trees were the biggest grunge band of all...
sept 19 in idea barrages
If I was a billionaire, I wouldn’t buy websites so people couldn’t make fun of me, I’d commission an animated version of ARTHUR, keeping all the dialogue and sound effects from the Dudley Mo...
prompt: rose, title: impractical magic in misc. flash fiction
Growing up dealing with what I suppose you’d call “mild-to-moderate” obsessive-compulsive disorder was a hell of a thing. You might never think that’s what I contend with, if you saw the unorgan...
sept 17 in idea barrages
The bad news is, everything’s a test. The good news is, no one’s keeping score. And we would’ve won the Laff-a-lympics, too, if it wasn’t for those medalling kids. The optimal name f...
s15 in idea barrages
Another great name for a band? SHART DECO. What kind of unholy fusion of “rural” and “hipster” would you have to be to unironically refer to Tractor Supply as “TSC”? Take the rhythm ...
s13 in idea barrages
Did they… give the terrible Garfield movie to Crisp Rat because Garfield’s “rediscovers terrible father who abandoned him” arc was the same as Guardians of the Galaxy 2 or… when they cast Ca...
prompt: area, title: look, up in the sky in misc. flash fiction
I don’t know that I necessarily believe any conspiracy theories, but God knows that I appreciate them. I love conspiracy theories for the way that they illuminate how people look at their world....
s11 in idea barrages
WEST SIDE STORY but instead of the Sharks and the Jets, it’s the Bloodhound Gang and the Insane Clown Posse. A parody of “When You Wish Upon A Star” about the Joker called “How You Think...
s9 in idea barrages
John Jacob Oppenheimer Schmidt, he has become death too, whenever he goes out, the people always shout, there goes John Jacob Oppenheimet Schmidt. Lovecraft was both obsessed with how aw...
s7 in idea barrages
How can you be a pirate if you’re in the Mohawk Valley where there is but one slender river fused with a canal? Don’t worry, baby, you can’t spell “Nautical” without “Utica”. Missionarie...
s5 in idea barrages
Strangers in the night? It doobie doobie do be like that, sometimes. Much rarer is the chiropractor who closes the session with a happy ending. They refer to themselves as “posturetutes”...
prompt: trial, title: what dreams may come in misc. flash fiction
One morning, after a night of troubled dreams about not gathering enough discarded sucrose for the queen, Procurement Drone Delta-Theta-81171 woke up in a big pile of fluffy things that she some...
s3 in idea barrages
Why say “ghosts that train the new ghosts” when you can say “non corpus mentors”? Yogi catgirls are all like “Nyanmaste”. A parody of POTUSA’s “Peaches” about the Dr. Seuss story “Sn...
s1 in idea barrages
“Muskrat Love” slowed down 500% into a vaporwave song called “Muskrat Ambivalence”. I don’t know why vampires would turn frogs into vampire frogs, I just know the frogs would say “Bloodw...
aug 30 in idea barrages
Why say “sword fight” when you can say “staff meeting”? A date that involves lovemaking and mediocre quick-service TexMex food could be called “Chipotlaid”. Only with his death did I...
prompt: gold, title: all that glittered in misc. flash fiction
She thought she just had a type. Not a physical-type but a personality-type. Aloof but impulsive. Free-spirited on the surface but deeply-guarded on the inside. She always wanted to save people ...
aug 28 in idea barrages
You know, you could totally write a column about drawing called Inkonclusion. You could! It’s okay to write about robots, don’t let anyone tell you there’s just literary devices. Oka...
aug 26 in idea barrages
He named his penis “Scoville” as he considered it a unit of heat. Are the studios are killing physical media & crippling streaming, so we HAVE to buy their diminishing-returns remake...
aug 24 in idea barrages
All slang is instantly dead the moment a big business uses it in an ad. “They got hoes, they got hoes, in different area Lowes!” he sang to himself, proving he was just about to need a ...
