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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
j27 in idea barrages
I don’t have a bit or a poem or a story to use the line “the only ethical consumption under capitalism is eating pussy” in yet. YET. Border collies are a real edge case. If they had ...
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A comedy routine about asking someone what their favorite coffee thing is, you say “affogato” and they say “it’s okay, I’ll help you remember”. A Cyprus Hill parody about being obsesse...
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A head canon where the song “Cotton Eyed Joe” is a song about the husband in the song “Jolene”. While Dolly’s singing about Jolene running off with her husband, this poor dude thought HE was...
prompt: review, title: nobler in the mind in misc. flash fiction
All their drug ultimately did was cut people off from experiencing their dreams. Living them out or remembering them. It couldn’t prevent dreams entirely, of course. Dreams are the mind trying t...
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A parody of Brecht’s “Alabama Song” about the old school Thruway stops. “Well, show me the way to the Roy’s Fixins Bar / NO, DON’T ASK WHY / NO, DON’T ASK WHY”. You are to cover all the ...
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Crashing Bedrock’s economy through surreptitious clam farming. An ad for getting rid of ads is the most American thing ever created. MATZO MATZO MAN, I WANT TO BE A MATZO MAN Whe...
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The only correct answer for Tarantino’s final film is “Last Action Hero Remake”. A Ren and Stimpy / My Chemical Romance mash-up called “Welcome to the Yak Parade” ft. Weird Al’s “Weasel ...
