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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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m24 in idea barrages
A minotaur version of Skeletor called SKELETAUR. Why call it a “honey bun” when you can call it “B-Roll”? The Steamboat Willie public domain rom-com called DREAMBOAT WILLIE. Why ...
prompt: action, title: ring around the collar in misc. flash fiction
David Arquette still owes me for dry-cleaning. He doesn’t know he does, of course, I never met the actor best known for “Scream” and having multifarious siblings and exes more notable than himse...
m22 in idea barrages
Why say “sitting pillow” when you can say “stool softener”? A future where “flipping” is the actual F-word, because everyone realized how cynically dehumanizing real estate flipping was ...
m20 in idea barrages
A Spanish Irish fusion restaurant called Tapas The Morning. There is comedy in pretending you confuse the words “balaclava” “baklava” and “balalaika” but it’s admittedly a niche. A s...
m18 in idea barrages
There is not a border crisis, there is not an immigration crisis, there is a humanitarian crisis and a crisis of lack of empathy. There are people suffering and there is our moral imperative...
m16 in idea barrages
“Did you ever hear the tale of Doc Plagueis The Mad? They say he could use the Force to control… time itself…” I just saw the grossest sounding phrase in the history of the language in a...
prompt: shady, title: barnum and bail-outs in idea barrages
It wasn’t always like this, y’know. Shysters trying to sell you horse-dewormer for a respiratory infection or procedurally-generated pictures of Christ with sixteen fingers and four elbows and t...
m14 in idea barrages
A parody of “American Woman” about AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. You don’t “have Taco Bell for dinner”. You might eat it. You may well consume it. Your body will absorb it and attempt ...
m12 in idea barrages
COBRA’s Weather Dominator implies the existence of G.I. JOE’s Weather Submissive. She loved Kermit so much, when he was in physical need, even if she had the worst headache in the world,...
m10 in idea barrages
You could easily start calling Easter “Furry Halloween”. It’d be funny! The problem is, you might give them the idea to take the idea seriously. The problem with good satire is it’s so close...
prompt: win, title: taking the w in misc. flash fiction
The knife is still in you. Metaphorically, the knife is still in your side, it has been for years and decades now. You have gotten used to it. To the extent that one can heal with a blade lodged...
m8 in idea barrages
A next-gen video game about THE FACTS OF LIFE could involve a 3-D Tootie. The most scientifically perfect strap-on and it’s called The Bigs-Hoseon. All you need for an “angry” review...
m6 in idea barrages
Shittin’ in the mornin’ sun / I’ll be shittin’ when the evenin’ comes / Watching the shits roll in / Then I watch ‘em roll away again, yeah / I’m shittin’ on the dock of the bay / Watchin’ t...
m4 in idea barrages
Both extremes of I.P. discourse kill culture as we know it & no one wants solutions that actually work. If you let pseudo-AI run rampant, no one makes anything new simple there’s no cash...
m2 in idea barrages
They’ve had so many tie-ins at McDonalds over the years but we’ve never gotten the “Egg McMuppet” and that’s just a shame. The Sausage Egg McMuppet could be MADE out of the pig woman! No...
prompt: rain, title: the sound of thunder in misc. flash fiction
So, do you want your good news or bad news first? Of course, you’ll want the good news first. You always want the good news first. You always think that the good news will give you paths toward ...
a30 in idea barrages
Wendy’s had the lock on “eating barely-acceptable chili in a solarium” market and they just threw it away. When you have a segment cornered, you gotta hold onto it for dear life, but no. The...
a28 in idea barrages
There is something deeply unnerving about the idea of being treated in a hospital named after a chain of casinos. Like, you’re just cosmically asking for it. If you look north and sudden...
well I’d rather be ugly than tired and I’d rather be smart than be rich and I’d rather just scrape by while having some fun than be some old billionaire’s bitch well I’d rather be ugly tha...
a26 in idea barrages
If you want to be accepted as a tree hugger, you need to immerse yourself in poplar culture. If Kenny Loggins last word aren’t “im.. all right… don’t nobody… worry bout me…” he will have...
prompt: shield, title: the best defense in misc. flash fiction
I’ve been trying to grow my fingernails out again, for what feels like the ten-thousandth time in my forty-something decades on this rock, and I’m certain that I’m going to fail once again but I...
a24 in idea barrages
One-hundred years of Disney, built on the exploitation of the business unsaavy Ub Iwerks, who did most of the work while Walt took the money and the credit. If Steamboat Willie goes back to ...
a22 in idea barrages
No orgy’s feast is complete without at least one braisin’ strumpet. A Dire Straits parody about Bart Simpson, David and Dennis the Menace called “Sultans of Sling”. A card game of ta...
easter barrage in idea barrages
Imprisoned for his many serious crimes, Paul Blart tries to escape his prison by evading the warden Paul Rudd, who turns out to act for the money but his real passion is prison wardening and...
a20 in idea barrages
Batman can create fresh soup with a single word via the power of the butlerguy effect. A soundbath but only of Goofy’s sub-linguistic utterances. No words but lots of Goofy’s sounds. ...
