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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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j7 in idea barrages
Why say “proofreading for grammar and punctuation” when you can say “colon-oscopy”? They didn’t market spicy Skittles with the tagline “Taste The Painbow” and it’s the great shame of the...
prompt: detect, title: what you wish for in misc. flash fiction
Damnedest thing George Bailey ever saw. He’d been considering suicide atop the only bridge in town, tiny compared to what he could’ve built as the world-famous architect he dreamt of being, but ...
j5 in idea barrages
Apparently the hockey player “Patrick Roy” was supposed to be pronounced “Patrick WAH” in Canada. Which makes me wonder if Waluigi is spelled “Royluigi” in Canada. From the ads for REACH...
j3 in idea barrages
What Warhol understood, but didn’t say out-loud as no one back then would have believed him, was that those fifteen minutes we were all indeed about to get would be the worst fifteen minutes...
the total package in poetry
the package it comes in tastes of cereal and sin the ancient fantasies and horseshoes and blue moons cardboard souls bound up in wax paper dixie cups still awaiting the balance of breakfast ...
j1 in idea barrages
The Henson Company’s personell department would’ve technically been H.R. Puppet Stuff. Maybe the Great Filter of the Fermi Paradox is social media. Every civilization that got close to r...
m30 in idea barrages
If British Knights shoes and Burger King sandwiches never did a cross-promotion, that’s just a missed trick, for sure. Head-canon where TREMORS is a distant prequel to DUNE. The opti...
prompt: swim, title: the picture in reverse in misc. flash fiction
Most creatives secretly wish they were also brilliant at some other form they’re terrible at, which frustrates them, suffusing their works with myriad references to those other mediums. How ofte...
m28 in idea barrages
If Doogie Howser had been a therapist instead of a medical doctor, it could’ve been called “Doogie Howser, Child Psychologist”. A French light beer called “Oui Oui”. An Applebees ad ...
m26 in idea barrages
If you mix pumpkin spice beer with lemonade, that’s a Boo Radler, delicious enough to kill a mockingbird. The next step up is to mash up public domain properties with pop stars. “Steambo...
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...
