littlefallsmets ⋅ 45 ⋅
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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Once upon a time, a girl with whom I was deeply-infatuated (but had no romantic interest in me) said I should rent Annie Hall from the local pizzeria/bodega/video rental/narcotic courier service...
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You will name your knife YouTube channel “never a dull moment”. Since Dave Thomas was adopted and Wendy has that bright red hair, head canon that Ronald McDonald secretly fathered Dave...
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I mean, GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER is about an old man killing his wife and trying to cover it up by feigning senile delusions, right? Driving to get Ollie’s insulin, singing Bon...
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It’s the new “Fast Asleep” diet crazy, sweeping Tiktok! You medically induce a coma because you can’t eat while you’re sleeping! It’s just that easy! You’re fasting asleep! Whenever poss...
prompt: serve / title: working titles in misc. flash fiction
That common phrase “Rome wasn’t built in a day” is literally-true as far as the literal truth goes, but the beginning is only one part of a story, and the other half of that truism is that Rome ...
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A pop-punk band called Enragement Ring. Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On A Prayer” except every “Whoa” is replaced by a “Whoa” by Joey Lawrence’s character in BLOSSOM. A reminder of once being ...
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Devo’s “Whip It” being a Doritos ad is both the culmination and refutation of Devo’s legacy, all at once. A gross sell-out and a glorious culmination, simultaneously. We are legion, I suppos...
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A cereal with transparent bran flakes and almond clusters called “Post Nut Clarity”. Randy Newman is a failed attempt at cloning Tom Waits. Here we are, puttin’ the “dung” in “Bildun...
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Why say “friends with benefits” when you can say “smoochachos”? Taylor Swift makes music for women who think it counts as group sex if you fuck on top of her Squishmallows. You eithe...
prompt: normal, title: magnet and steal in misc. flash fiction
Joan Henry was a stylus-driving lass, every day still-driven to creating her art. It wasn’t so much she did it for passion, though drawing certainly was her passion, the issue was she’d literall...
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A magical tow truck? Sounds like winch-craft to me. Why say “string bean wholesaler” when you can say “pod dealer”? So many commercials for prescription medicines end with someone pa...
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Why say “Best Seller” when you can say “Pick Of The Literature”? “Vtuber” doesn’t sound like a word for someone who streams video games with a fake avatar cartoon, “Vtuber” sounds like a...
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Why say “docking” when you can say “Johnson & Johnson”? A murder mystery about the death of a rich big game hunter where no one wants to solve the mystery because everyone is glad he...
prompt: sun / title: pattern-welded damascus in misc. flash fiction
Sitting in the audience of a poetry reading by a handful of brilliant folk, at my tender age of 45, I finally realize something I couldn’t put into concrete word until that very moment and so I’...
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“Whole grains kids will love!” Yes, Big Granola, because they’re covered in enough chocolate to kill an Oompa Loompa. Any healthfulness is overwhelmed by the bag of sugar. C’mon now. We’re n...
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We’re all old enough, now, to admit what wicked crushes we had on Calvin’s mom in Calvin and Hobbes. It’s okay. The world’s gotten so weird that it’s damn near normal now. For the amount...
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We’re all just different knots on the same string. We look at our differing shapes and assume that makes us separate and different but… nah. All the same damn string. We have a square ...
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When the malls decoupled from the multiplexes, something was lost. Remember the joy of sneaking a metric-butt-ton of low-grade Taco Bell into the cinema and eating it while watching a movie?...
prompt: circle, title: the bushwick blues in "the next big thing" flash fiction
When I lived in LA, people lingered on the city’s past as something wonderful-yet-naïve. Better, but only in shallow-surface ways. The open-air malls, gigantic record stores, the bikers haunting...
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Why call benedryl “sleep aid” when you can call it your “catatonic converter”? You capture, train and battle various popes from throughout history. It’s called Popemon. “You used EXCOMMU...
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Whenever baseball twitter refers to the Competitive Balance Tax as CBT, I giggle, because outside of baseball twitter “CBT” means “Cock and Ball Torture” and basically deep down that makes m...
Why say “winter snow removal budget” when you can say “slush fund”? Why say “lingerie” when you could say “hornaments”? When you sensually kiss, stroke and suck a girl clown’s beep n...
prompt: sink, title: a ghost is born in misc. flash fiction
The worst thing about being dead other than not being alive, of course, is the way that absolutely nothing changes. Everything changes for you, sure, you’re no longer corporeal, no longer able t...
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If you think about it, every wheat field is really just a potential beer garden. I hope the next Godzilla flick is called “The Square Root of Godzilla”. I hope it’s middle-school math ti...
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Being in your 40s is going on YouTube towards massage and chiropractic videos for psychosomatic relief for your awful awful back. Sometimes I have self-pity about being single but on m...
