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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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“But… we’re going out in style!” she yelled as she ran into the bedroom, a real Dapper Danielle in her very best suit, throwing her wife’s prettiest sundress onto her, even as she wept upon thei...
dec 19 in idea barrages
Why say he was “killed when he was hit by a car” when you could say he had an “auto immune deficiency”? A movie about class conflict amoungst merpeople called THE GILLED AGE. If you...
the c.e.o. blues in poetry
all the dumbest assholes do cocaine all the dumbest assholes do cocaine how dumb’s a motherfucker gotta be to need to speed up in his brains? all the dumbest assholes do cocaine all the ch...
dec 17 in idea barrages
A software mod can be a real game changer. The real mistake in Space Force was the name. The Air Force isn’t the Sky Force, Space Force should’ve been called The Vacuum Force. That would...
dec 15 in idea barrages
I’d love to read film review very low expectations being barely met. “It wasn’t too long, it was brightly colored, the performers attractive, a fine excuse to purchase children’s snacks in p...
dec 13 in idea barrages
A Ted Danson hosted documentary series about astronomy called “Danson, With The Stars”. The Smurfs theme song but as surf rock. Smurf rock. A spooky bakery called Kneadful Things. ...
prompt: fast, title: off the rails in misc. flash fiction
One of the more interesting holiday traditions to come forth in recent years is “The Polar Express Christmas Train Ride”, where tourist rail services redress one of their leaf-peeping trains wit...
dec 11 in idea barrages
Sometimes when people say “namaste” I honestly hear “nah, I’m gonna stay” and I get terribly confused. You’ll never witness the process of a small cut to your body healing, but every day...
dec 9 in idea barrages
Gravy-making ironically starts with a fond farewell. As with most children’s songs, “Where Is Thumbkin” would be really creepy sung in a slow minor key and horror movies trailers have be...
obvious exegesis in life stuff and misc.
The idea of God being created by powerful men as an example of how we were supposed to treat those powerful men, to their benefit, modeling us how we were supposed to treat our “Betters” in the ...
dec 7 in idea barrages
A magicians’ retirement community in Voilavoila, Washington. Why call it “your ex’s perfume” when you can call it “old bae seasoning”? If you solely drink Labatts and Molson, you don...
prompt: letter, title: the secret chord in misc. flash fiction
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is a lot of things which is fine. Leonard was a poet long before he sang, Cohen appreciated the value of ambiguity. When people leave wanting more, constructing thei...
dec 5 in idea barrages
Next year, you could fill a box with a spooky treat for each day of October and call it a Vladvent Calendar. It’s weird being so old you can remember when Saturday Night Live was funny. ...
dec 3 in idea barrages
Some point in their life, every writer has to ask themselves “am I not finishing this because I’m a perfectionist, am I not finishing this because I’m lazy or am I not finishing this because...
dec 1 in idea barrages
If Taco Bell workers weren’t so horribly underpaid, I would order a quesadilla and when I got it, I would be like “one? just one? I ordered an entire CASE of dillas!” but, like, they suffer ...
nov 29 in idea barrages
Upton Funk, diseased meat packing (woo) / Upton Funk, diseased meat packing (woo) Why say “sleep paralysis demon” when you can say “gets me stiff at night demon”? A Christmas parody ...
nov 27 in idea barrages
Snow, I don’t mind, as long as I don’t have to shovel it. Just don’t start playing “Christmas Wrapping” by the Waitresses, the only Christmas music more grating than Mariah Carey or Michael ...
nov 25 in idea barrages
It’s so weird how our culture made “career politician” a bad thing. Well-intentioned rookies don’t know how to get anything done. People who’ve made it a career understand the levers of powe...
nov 23 in idea barrages
Why call it a “butt crack” when you can call it “the bottom line”? Go from strip club to strip club, Trick or Teating tomorrow. A successful bank heist requires a good safe word. ...
prompt: pop, title: for external use only in misc. flash fiction
Having a national symbol is a wonderful thing, in concept. Something inspiring and unifying to rally around. In practice, it usually comes up short as any country is too varied and fractious for...
nov 21 in idea barrages
Why say you’re “compulsively drinking vodka gimlets” when you can say you “have lime disease”? Finishing up the illustration of a comic book, that’s just drawing conclusions. A Hallo...
nov 19 in idea barrages
That Cookie Monster, what a crumb dumpster. I’m always fascinated by the things we pretend in civilization to try & feign we’re better than we are. There are oven cooking directions ...
nov 17 in idea barrages
If a movement’s really about helping people, it has to also have empathy for how the American economic system makes it so very hard to have time/money for activism. If you’re so strident on ...
nov 15 in idea barrages
It’s easy to do parodies of classic rock songs if they have an -ipple word in the word, just change that to “nipple” and it writes itself. I can only think of The Band’s “Up on Cripple Creek...
prompt: aid, title: terms and conditions may apply in misc. flash fiction
(sometimes, I write the same idea twice in two forms, in parallel, to see how they manifest differently) Have you ever noticed how the names of skin conditions if they weren’t actually diseases...
