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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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july 20 in idea barrages
If it wasn’t the name of a deadly insect borne illness, “malaria” would be a great name for a flower. “Oh, you know it’s June when you see the malarias in bloom.” Anxiety is a culture, a cult...
prompt: bird, title: the harper lee blues in misc. flash fiction
To say I’m not a morning person is an understatement, understatement so profound as to border on absurdity. Saying I am not an early morning person would be like saying Tom Cruise is only overcom...
july 18 in idea barrages
A parody of NIN’s “Star----ers Inc.” about Rust Monsters. A movie about Sir Mix-A-Lot crossing paths with a group of Amish testing if they want to live in the modern world and it’s called “Ru...
parody of Neil Young's "Don't Let It Bring You Down" in song parodies
old cup lying by the side of the road residue of baja blast flour shell lying in a gutter by the drain with a few beans holding fast grown men squatting in the alley at dawn ...
july 16 in idea barrages
In WARHORSE 2: FIGHT TIL YOU’RE HOARSE, the warhorse works in weapons development and invents neighpalm. Almost asleep, our hero jumps out of bed with the realization that Red Green was the C...
july 14 in idea barrages
Driving home, I got on my nonsense again and started imagining a languid 1:35 AM blues bar version of the WKRP IN CINCINNATI theme song, like Donald Fagen “Nightfly” / Tom Waits “Small Change” ...
prompt: list, title: emeru's revenge in misc. flash fiction
She was on her supervisor’s bad side and she knew it. The exact cause at that particular time was a mystery but, when you’re spending a literal eternity in Hell, there’s a long list of things it ...
july 12 in idea barrages
I like to think that at least one of the roads in BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND was the road they traveled down and back again in the GOLDEN GIRLS theme. The only difference between peanut brittle and ...
july 10 in idea barrages
CUDDLELINGUS. There aren’t enough jokes about the workers at the Cheesecake Factory seizing the means of production. I feel like KFC never leaned into the Kernels / Colonels pun with their ...
july 8 in idea barrages
Trying my best to be a good person is like chasing the horizon or the half lives of radioactive elements. I improve but there’s always new things I have to learn how to work on. I’m well-intent...
shower haiku in poetry
approximation in words, equivocation in action, a pity
parried moppings in poetry
supertragic expeditious funky halitosis even though the smell of it can lead to holy gnosis building up in weeping nodes of psychic scoliosis supertragic expeditious funky halitosis
i wonder if you dream of me, as I dream of you, in the summer
july 6 in idea barrages
Did Spongebob get his Christmas gifts delivered by “Manta Claus” or did they really miss a trick? Okay, you are allowed to name your punk band “Vom Bombadil”. That’s acceptable. IT’S ALL AB...
prompt: gem, title: lake woebegon on opposite day in misc. flash fiction
I don’t think she meant anything cruel when she said it, I had little doubt toward her sincerity. “You should run for Alderman,” she said as I left the booth, “your grandfather and dad were both...
interdependence day in idea barrages
Only half the problem of AI stealing from/replacing human artists is the AI existing and being used. The other half is a country that has so devalued education in the arts and letters that peop...
elegy for the guilty in poetry
those cops just threw him in the river the rocks were what bashed out his brain and you can’t press a charge on a river that would be wholesale insane they’re all just ...
jl2 in idea barrages
Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me All” except the bass solo is replaced by the entirety of the opening theme to SEINFELD. The oddest thing about emotions is that, like, there are times we don’t k...
june 30 in idea barrages
If I had to create a crossover character for The Food Fighters and The Barnyard Commandos, I guess I’d make him an ovine fry cook called The Battering Ram. No, the WEIRDEST Shakespeare based ...
“My parents,” Dakota said gently, “my uncles, their generations were not going down without a fight against fighting.” “So,” Bobby sputtered incredulous, “they gathered a bunch of theoretical phy...
june 28 in idea barrages
A penny thrown into an actual functioning wishing well, that’s life changing money. Any amount of money, no matter how big or how small, spent at a brothel is technically “fuck you money”. ...
silence is golden and I’m goddamned near broke silence is golden it’s soft and it’s rarer than hen’s teeth in a vegan restaurant it’s precious and lusted after hoarded and often stolen when no...
june 26 in idea barrages
I just can’t wrap my mind around the idea that exercising more would make me LESS tired. I get it, I get it, stamina, muscle growth, blah blah blah, but it just fundamentally violates my unders...
june 24 in idea barrages
The way the morning of February 10th briefly looked like a respite from winter, green grass peeking out through melting snow at the curbsides, up here we call that Fool’s Spring. Winter is gonn...
june 22 in idea barrages
LESS DONATING YOUR BODY TO SCIENCE, MORE DONATING YOUR BODY TO MAGIC A mash-up of The Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Summer in the City” and Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem’s “Can You Picture That”. ...
