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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.
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prompt: spin, title: a certain measure of hope in misc. flash fiction
I’ve been thinking a lot about what an honor is to not die young and pretty, what a privilege it is to instead just wind down, simply wear out. How often it is a person doesn’t get to experience ...
jan 22 in idea barrages
A rap parody about Brian Posehn built around the line “Posehn in the membrane / Posehn in the brain”. The Phish song “David Bowie” but about Patrick Duffy. Start an ice cream parlor to supp...
prompt: stop, title: the kurtzberg account in misc. flash fiction
“What happened to my powers?” The intrusive thought sped through her mind from time to time. She had no idea where it could’ve come from, but each and every time, she pushed it down and away beca...
jan 20 in idea barrages
When Alta Vista died, it should’ve retroactively had its name changed to Baja Vista. A Twilight Zone that ends with the line “But Doctor, you ARE Pagliacci!” You can’t look outside of yours...
jan 18 in idea barrages
Mike Myers is the poor man’s Martin Short. Rick Moranis is the rich man’s Martin Short. An anthem for country-and-western vegetarians “I Eat Things With No Faces”. Dough in a Tandoori is a ...
jan 16 in idea barrages
The first time your children encounter The Flintstones, tell them that it was based on a popular cereal. Oh boy, someday they’ll find out the truth and what a laugh you’ll have. One arbitrary...
jan 14 in idea barrages
Watch out, lest the genie of the shampoo bottle ends up washed up as a bathtub djinn. Some day, up here in the North Country, we will start calling surgical masks “COVID mufflers” because the...
jan 12 in idea barrages
If you want both the goth AND the emo audiences to buy your stuff, you just name the band Unsolved Miseries. There you go. All the merch sales. A Cake parody about people in a moral panic ove...
imaginary cake song in poetry
I want the love of a danger-haired e-girl I want to live in the Wonderland Zoo a god that styles his hair in a spit curl and Bonaroo from a hot air balloon I want to watch hol...
jan 10 in idea barrages
Another way wealth is wasted on the wealthy: who spends their money on almost going into outer space for five minutes when you could build a pyramid lined with the old Chuck E Cheese movie paro...
jan 8 in idea barrages
It’s not when the classic rock station starts playing the music of your youth that you’re old, it’s when the classic rock station starts playing the music you were too old for in high school, t...
fifty two miles to empty fifty two miles an hour fifty nine minutes to go or so until it loses power and I can’t help but kind of want it and I can’t help to hope it just ends and I ca...
prompt: again, title: if the price is right in "sasquatch of los angeles" flash fiction
“You can’t argue a thing into being,” she said, “that’s not how magic works.” You can conjure a little through work and practice, you can gamble or bargain or negotiate with the higher or even th...
jan 6 in idea barrages
The Youtube Algorithm. A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. Sometimes you have to step back and ask yourself: what are you programming yourself to be? The media you consume, ...
prompt: farewell, title: sensory deprivation in "sasquatch of los angeles" flash fiction
One of the other upsides of Los Angeles, for all the bad things you can say about it, is the utter timelessness of living there. You can’t account for seasons in the way you can in other parts of...
prompt: wait, title: don't wait up in misc. flash fiction
The good news is that your last nervous breakdown could be your very last nervous breakdown. The bad news is that there’s a couple of different ways that scenario could actually unfold, good or i...
jan 4 in idea barrages
In your Early Middle Ages history class, you will have at least one chance for the bon mot “Picts or it didn’t happen!” Be on guard, be ready, your time will come. You can’t use Cap’n Crunch ...
jan 2 in idea barrages
Pirates used to eat in the gallery but they used up all the Rs and it became the galley. I feel like we went from double-bladed razors to eight-bladed razors at light speed, meanwhile we’ve b...
dec 30 in idea barrages
Oh, the abyss is going to stare back. It’s unavoidable from the start. The key is maybe, just maybe, you can make the abyss blink first. Have we considered that maybe Grandma also say Mommy k...
dec 28 in idea barrages
An ICP boy band spin-off called Boyzone The Clowns. to the tune of The First Noel “Kal-El, Kal-El, Kal-EL, KAAAAAL-EL, oh boy is that Superman really swell” “If it weren’t for executive dys...
dec 26 in idea barrages
“Do No Harm” is not enough. It’s a fine start but it is not enough. Mermaids and mermen use tridents. Demons and devils use tridents. Clearly, if you have a character who is half-infernal and...
dec 24 in idea barrages
Money makes one think they know everything. Fame makes one think they must yell it all from the rooftops. Not enough people in the backs of chariots telling people they’re not gods anymore thes...
dec 22 in idea barrages
An album of muzak-styled Radiohead covered called OK Commuter. Sometimes I think about how the Zodiac Killer really wasted a gimmick by not targeting the people who write horoscopes. There’...
prompt: gift, title: little miracles in "sasquatch of los angeles" flash fiction
Not everything is awful about Los Angeles, I’m not saying that. I don’t want to say that. It’s just that every joy there has a dark side, the kind of deep shadows that can only be cast in the bla...
dec 20 in idea barrages
SONIC THE HEGEMONY It is of vital importance that you pretend to confuse Ernest and Forrest Gump at all possible times. Yoda sets his camera up on a quadpod because there is no tri. The M...
