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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: autumn, title: autumn leaves in misc. flash fiction
He nicknamed her “Autumn” and she thought it was adorable, she thought it was a reference to the dark brown of her eyes, the rust-red of her hair, her freckles like speckles on a half changed map...
sept 25 in idea barrages
(to the tune of All-Star) Rheeeeeett BUT-ler once told me, that he don’t wanna know me, said frankly that he don’t give a damn.... When call it an “acting teacher” when you could call it a “s...
sept 24 in idea barrages
Someone must be a checkers grand-master. Ah yeah, the founding of a vanity political party, the desperate act of a narcissist running out of ways to glom the spotlight. Maybe the lyrics of ...
sept 23 in idea barrages
I wonder if the Australians got revenge on us by advertising “Coors… American for Beer” on their native shores. Your terrible rap-metal song about Super Mario Brothers 3 will be called “I Did...
prompt: word, title: without a trace in misc. flash fiction
A labelscar is a word within a word. Or maybe it’s more of a word without a word. A labelscar is what gets left behind when a word has stood for so long that the world has changed around it but i...
sept 22 in idea barrages
We could totally call fan-conventions “stan mixers”. If only cooking reality shows had their contestants come out to personal theme songs, like professional wrestlers or closing relief pitche...
sept 21 in idea barrages
Imagine enjoying media w/out a need to engage in fandom, endless discourse with the like-minded. None of the external validation of discussion & fanwank, no drama, no setting up camps or su...
sept 20 in idea barrages
It’s like half renaissance fair, half murder mystery dinner. It’s a madrigal mystery tour! On the way to a drive-in movie, like a semi-responsible human being in still-uncertain times, drove ...
sept 19 in idea barrages
A film about an attempt to populate an entire amusement park with Christopher Walken clones that goes terribly wrong called “WALKEN THE PARK”. The “Joe Rogan Experience” is having a tiny man ...
sept 18 in idea barrages
At its best, writing can be generative meditation, a meditative state that produces work while refocusing your mind. It can be a waking dream, the same defragmentation REM state creates. Most o...
sept 17 in idea barrages
You know what the trick was with the loaves & fish? The crowd was starved, even a bit would be a feast to each. Jesus & Friends could’ve had a light nosh but for a crowd it was a little...
prompt: dog, title: values and costs in misc. flash fiction
The communists shot Laika into space, just because they could, just to prove a point. This wasn’t for the science, of course, it was a dominance play, to show off to the world. They knew that she...
sept 16 in idea barrages
A musical version of King Kong called APE MISBEHAVIN’. Speed dating at the Michaels and they call it “Craft Singles”. Flanders, Long Island has big duck energy. A pre-owned car and a post...
sept 15 in idea barrages
A parody of Steely Dan’s “FM” about satellite radio. “No signal at all, no signal at all, no signal at all… XM, no signal at all!” If you care about the deaths of a dozen Marines because it s...
sept 14 in idea barrages
A dark comedy about factory workers damned to keep working their jobs even in death as ghosts called “Time Sheets”. A mystery about the journey to find a stolen family heirloom called “The Qu...
sept 13 in idea barrages
During that brief period when people were ironically into sea shanties, you could’ve cashed in with the band name “The Pillage People” but that opportunity too is now lost to time like tears in...
sept 12 in idea barrages
Do not name your meats before putting them in the oven. No, not even “Isabella Roastalini”. That’s clever, of course, but still morally wrong. It’s too bad Elektra isn’t the quippy sort becau...
sept 11 in idea barrages
A great song about synesthesia would be “She Blinded Me With Silence”. Sonic the Hedgehog refuses chili dogs during Lent. If you ask him why, he will respond “Gotta go fast.” The part of th...
sept 10 in idea barrages
If you get caught between the moon and New York City, best that you can do is hope that you’re at the equilibrium point where you’ll just float until you suffocate and freeze to death, as oppos...
sept 9 in idea barrages
You pour a mimosa over your Crunch Berries. Congratulations, you have created Cap’n Brunch, the saddest invention of all. Kiefer Sutherland has a fully-absorbed vestigial conjoined twin named...
sept 8 in idea barrages
Upon reflection, Burger King’s “Have It Your Way” slogan was incredibly passive-aggressive. It would be like McDonalds having a “You Think You Know Better Than Us, Huh?” slogan or Taco Bell run...
prompt: surrender, title: the sacrifice play in misc. flash fiction
“The hardest thing in your life is rarely something you do once or a handful of times,” she said, “no matter how difficult. Childbirth, killing in war, those take seconds or hours.” She allowed h...
sept 7 in idea barrages
Live Inside, Laugh at the Outside, Love Air-Conditioning. Malort is Chicago’s revenge on America for not getting to live in NYC or LA. Well-played, Illinois, well-played. Quarantining Rahm ...
sept 6 in idea barrages
Has anyone ever asked Nickelodeon why they made Jimmy Neutron’s hair style look like the pinched-tip of the world’s creamiest shit? Anyone ever explain why they were going for that? Because… I ...
sept 5 in idea barrages
When you’re in your 20s, you pop and lock to impress breakdance ladies on the floor. When you’re in your 40s, your joints pop and lock of their own accord. When no one notices your social med...
