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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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n 5 in idea barrages
I hope your significant other says your name the same way Youtube Preppers say “kit” and “system”. “It appears that Victor’s flesh golem is a mute.” “That,” Van Helsing replied, “goes without...
n 3 in idea barrages
The liquor store whose lotto was always down, gone now, only vulgar doodles in its window dust left as epitaph. There is a seemingly closed auto shop near the Mohawk/Ilion line called “Frank’...
prompt: must, title: when not being stupid is not enough in misc. flash fiction
It used to mean something to be pretty-good at something. It really did. To be a three-sport high school star, a county beauty queen, to be in the best band in your valley. It often meant a life ...
your lucky day in poetry
he bought his lotto tickets there sometimes because he thought the place was lucky he thought that it was lucky sometimes because it was quite near where the one he felt had got away gr...
n 1 in idea barrages
SWEATY TODD: THE DEMON PERSONAL TRAINER OF FLEET STREET I mean, someone must’ve written a story about a vampire private investigator called STAKE OUT or at least a cattle-rustling noir called...
garde l'eau in poetry
form a line and line the forms it’s summertime, the sky is warm where’s the harm, don’t mind the storm the weather’s fine as long as you ignore those falling dogs and cats fi...
o 30 in idea barrages
A white guy rapper named Two Podcasts For Sure. He definitely has at least two podcasts. There are not enough artistic interpretations of The Hamburglar as a raccoon creature. Sell regular ...
cartoon logic in poetry
when the revolution comes for Richie Rich he’ll hide in a vault like a little bitch even that lucky fuck Uncle Scrooge McDuck will put up a fight with his blunderbuss but birth to privilege a...
o 28 in idea barrages
Difficult to not look back on my life as an almost endless string of amazing opportunities I botched through indecision or fear of hurting others to get what I want. But every new day’s a new c...
prompt: close, title: a whole new world in misc. flash fiction
She wouldn’t mind it so much, if it wasn’t for the damn birds. Some would call it a blessing, she came to know it as a curse, but all in all, it wouldn’t have been so bad if not for the birds. Sh...
o 26 in idea barrages
Last night’s nightmare involved having to take the Math regents as an adult while a virus that scrambled peoples’ emotional responses was tearing through the community. You ask “Mike, why don’t...
o 24 in idea barrages
You know, we could start a whole new Kenny Rogers themed coffee chain, in the ashes of his chicken chain, and still use the name “Kenny Rogers Roasters”. It would still work perfectly. If you...
o 22 in idea barrages
A parody of “Lido Shuffle” about Ghostbusters 2’s Vigo The Carpathian. I am now old enough where people younger than me are getting their musical nostalgia tours with a bunch of early 2000s p...
prompt: pound, title: the more things change in misc. flash fiction
“So, why is everyone on here always hitting the pound key?” “What do you mean by that,” she’d known teaching her mother how to use Twitter would be difficult, she hadn’t known it’d be quite this ...
o 20 in idea barrages
An interesting thing about the porn-sick is the baseline they judge attractiveness on. A sane person would judge it at “the median of people who would voluntarily get naked for me in person”. B...
o 18 in idea barrages
A discount electronics store called Circuits Peanuts. Gluten God: The Demon Baker Of Wheat Street. Funko Pops are just plastic NFTs. Vampire fashion is static, unchanging, neither newfang...
o 16 in idea barrages
The optimal title for an album is “Self-Doubt Helps Us Not Be Monsters”. A great name for a band is “Lip Glossolalia”. When food does a strip tease, that’s just rice peel-off. Y’know, at ...
o 14 in idea barrages
If you really cared about music, you wouldn’t be complaning about Lizzo’s flute, you would be helping me find and destroy the six cursed puka shell necklaces that bind the demon Dave Matthews t...
prompt: dart, title: choices, choices in "sasquatch of los angeles" flash fiction
“I’ve never seen anyone do that before,” he said. “Do what?” I asked, squirting ketchup onto my mozzarella sticks. “Put ketchup on mozzarella sticks. That’s a new one on me.” “Well, I’m part-Ital...
o 12 in idea barrages
A parody of GNR’s “Double Talkin’ Jive” about apple picking? Considering how ambiguous the gender of a puppet really is, I sort of like calling the muppet band The Electric Theythem. If you...
o 10 in idea barrages
I despise when news stories about disasters are like “500,000 Customers Without Power”. They’re not customers. We are not customers. We’re people. Those are people without power. In this case, ...
o 8 in idea barrages
Dan Brown doesn’t know for history at all, Dan Brown doesn’t know for history at all, Dan Brown doesn’t know for history at all, his bullshit marches ooooooooonnnnn.... In my long line of pot...
prompt: stoop, title: BALM IN GILEAD in misc. flash fiction
“You can’t beat the devil by a nose,” the old man said, on the stoop where he sat every night for years, at least since I’d moved into the neighborhood, “that’s not how it works. If it’s even clo...
o 6 in idea barrages
Sadly, “Watching The Detectives” didn’t start a trend of true-crime shows with reggae-inflected theme-songs because “No Body, No Crime” would’ve been pretty fun. You can tell her heart isn’t ...
o 4 in idea barrages
How many people did see semi-regularly before COVID, kept up with well online but have seen rarely in person over the last 2 years, that only go by their first & middle names online, how ma...
