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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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aug 22 in idea barrages
A late Gen X poem: you took him to bed / because he played you “Crash” / you woke the next day / with one hell of a rash Why say “portable dip” when you can say “guacamobility”? If ...
prompt: couch, title: everyone else forgot in misc. flash fiction
In the beginning, the internet was a tool to see the parts of the world you couldn’t see from where you were sitting, behind a giant desktop tower with a 28.8-modem chirping at you as it fired u...
aug 20 in idea barrages
There’s only one archer in their entire cult and she wields The Compound Bow. Here’s another great name for an indie band: Mollusk Ringwald. A reimagining of the Demon Barber story i...
aug 18 in idea barrages
I think someone just muted me for saying the Mets pitching situation is bad and it’s not gonna be fixed by signing even more kinda-acceptable #4-#5 starters. Like, you don’t have to be delus...
aug 16 in idea barrages
Why say “flat bottom boys” when you can say “assless chaps”? I don’t call the Syracuse hockey rink “the Oncenter” not only because its real name is The Onondaga War Memorial but also bec...
prompt: sound, title: phase changes in misc. flash fiction
“No.” I admitted to her, without shame but without pride, either, “If I were that smooth, I’d have three of you.” I’m honest to a fault most of the time, admitting to my weakness and giving othe...
birthdaybarrage in idea barrages
I am, admittedly, still disappointed that Amazon delivery cannot deliver me an Amazon. You are thrifting for old video games. Something catches your eye. “Ooo, Wii U” you think. An intru...
aug 12 in idea barrages
Your childhood crushes from the films and television are now hocking placebic beauty creams on the home shopping conveyances. You are old now. Of course the Heartland is boring. Their st...
aug 10 in idea barrages
A yacht club but for use on people who think it’s cool to buy yachts. Facebook is spamming me with ads about being a surrogate mother. It’s kinda hilarious for me personally, as I haven’...
aug8 in idea barrages
“And you honour the presidents with a holiday?” Washington asked the time-traveler. “Yes!” “What do you… do for this holiday?” “Sell mattresses.” “Sell mattresses?” “Sell. Mattresses.” A...
prompt: side, title: the flattening of affectations in idea barrages
Jackie Gleason owned three sets of wardrobes. One for the winters playing golf in Florida, one for his live show touring and one for his time spent working on television projects in New York Cit...
aug6 in idea barrages
All-Star games made sense when casual fans had no easy way to watch all the stars they wanted to on any given night. There’s kind of no fan-experience point to an All Star game now, other th...
aug4 in idea barrages
HAMILTON but it’s about Linda Hamilton. 15 hip-hop musical numbers about what a douche-nozzle James Cameron is. You will cover the Moody Blues as country line dance songs as THE BOOTY MO...
aug2 in idea barrages
Just singing to myself, to the tune of Du Hast, “TOO/TOO HOT/TOO HOT FOR/TOO HOT FOR T.V./TOO/TOO HOT/TOO HOT FOR/TOO HOT FOR T.V.” Probably the greatest crossover between progressive ro...
prompt: wonder, title: the forest of the night in misc. flash fiction
When the light left the star in the sky you gazed up at last night, dinosaurs still roamed the Earth. The beam that left their sun that eve, as you stared at its distant echoing, will arrive h...
j31 in idea barrages
A rockabilly warlock that constantly casts Elvis Blast. A country song called “Don’t Look For Love At Harbor Freight, Even If You Find It, Your Heart Will Break Three Days Later”. Fo...
j29 in idea barrages
Only reason Clark Kent could afford the terrible pay at the beginning of a journalism career was that he could commute from his spacious affordable polar fortress and could literally eat by ...
j27 in idea barrages
Nostalgia is the past eating the future while the present is being lied to that its own belly is full. It’s always important to remember that punk was created by upscale London fashion d...
j25 in idea barrages
Ian Miles Cheong implies the existence of Ian Miles Cheeech, the most obnoxious anarcho-capitalist stoner of all time. Some kind of combination of a Ouija board and a slide guitar. Or at...
“Or maybe,” Frank said as he left a wad of grubby bills on the table under the sugar shaker, “just blue-skying here, but maybe you’re too hard on yourself? Maybe you found your dream honestly an...
j23 in idea barrages
The agility and dexterity she inherited from her family, parkour was a cinch for her. You might say she did it with… relative ease. ALL AROUND THE WORLD, STATUES CRUMBLE FOR ME / I’M REA...
hopes beyond hope in poetry
the undead hide in the living room you took for granted what’s in grant’s tomb it’s four-twenty, it’s not high noon the whos are asking why teleconferencing face-to-face your inner world is...
j21 in idea barrages
If you use your zap gun to commit regicide on the Prince of Space, that’s just laser heir removal, baby A Blue Oyster Cult parody “Don’t Squeeze The Charmin”? You know what’d be a gr...
j19 in idea barrages
Move to Montana’s capital. Start a restaurant called “Helena’s Ham Basket”. It will be worth it, if only for the meme. This push to re-invent Martha Stewart as a feminist icon is so biza...
Frank eventually asked me, what brings a person to spend Their Twenties trying to get famous in Los Angeles. God help me, I knew the exact answer. While I may not have been able to articulate it...
