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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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a18 in idea barrages
I mean, one good thing we can say about the changing of years is that every passing year involves less checks written with the wrong year because personal checks are slowly disappearing. ...
a16 in idea barrages
In Emo Mario Brothers, Mario jumps on Gloombas. The merger of the XFL and USFL needs to go into anti-trust court as they are creating a monopoly on “names for football teams that sound l...
a14 in idea barrages
Bad boys, good guys, I’m the slightly-mischievous man. If I’m quiet, I’m either actually comfortable or I’m dead. If you showed someone from before COVID all the pictures on social ...
a12 in idea barrages
A marijuana product review show called “Highly Recommended”. In hell, the only thing you can eat is Tarnation Instant Breakfast. A firework that shoots noodles cooked by the flames c...
a10 in idea barrages
It is weird to think of, but there must have been some first person to make a pickle, even if there were many “inventions” of them in different cultures. It feels like they always existed...
prompt: carry, title: cleaning up in misc. flash fiction
I’ve written before on the topic of my favorite curse word, ‘goddamned’. The way that its treated as a milder curse, a PG-13 cuss, yet is a way of saying ‘I want the Thing in charge of every-thi...
a8 in idea barrages
The life of a cattle neuterer is difficult. It’s hard living on a fixed income. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” is true but “You humiliate yourself on 100% of the shots you m...
a6 in idea barrages
If you replaced every “Forget About It” in the Matchbox 20 song “Smooth” with a bad Mafia stereotype “FUGGEDABOWDIT”, there would finally be one interesting thing about the Matchbox 20 song ...
a4 in idea barrages
A Beatles parody about dang ol’ Scantron standardized tests involving the lines “Letter B, Letter B, Letter B, Letter B, At least guess an answer, Letter B”. A new Marvel character with ...
prompt: build, title: the name game in misc. flash fiction
“Jeannie’s Dream Motel” hadn’t always been called that. Who knew how long it’d been there, on a lonely country road through farmlands between Richfield Springs and West Winfield, but she’d no do...
a2 in idea barrages
It’s about a fraternity comprised entirely of loser centaurs and it’s called ANIMAL HORSE. When you need tin cans / to be eaten, man / who you gonna call? / Goat Butlers! It’s not th...
mar31 in idea barrages
A parody of Mama Mia about pasta making called “Semolina”. King Crimson’s Thela Hun Jinjeet nut about Thelma and Louise. They keep trying to make bread and it keeps turning into drug...
mar29 in idea barrages
If you refuse to do good in flawed imperfect systems, you’re not about doing good, you’re about feeling righteous. “Musk” is just one letter away from “Musak”, room-temperature music and...
prompt: blur, title: association by guilt in misc. flash fiction
I’m conflicted about the role I’ve fallen into in, as a lore-keeper for all my home-town’s darkest open secrets, the things that everyone knows if they were there at the time, but sound absolute...
m27 in idea barrages
The California Raisins’ classic rock counterpart, The Allmond Brothers Band. A Star Trek arts and crafts book called “Make It Sew”. So many people declaring 2024 the start of the evi...
m25 in idea barrages
A parody of “Take Me Home Country Roads” for Christmas that starts with the lines “there’s a Santa / yes, Virginia”. Your ability to generate bisecting lines is unparalleled. Remembe...
m23 in idea barrages
I feel like ATMs would’ve picked up even faster if they had used the marketing phrase “Go BANK Yourself!” I’ve never once in my entire life been improved by negative reinforcement, by de...
m21 in idea barrages
He’s Popeye the Sailor Man / He’s doing the best he can / He’d like to see you try / With just only one eye / He’s Popeye the Sailor Man Here’s a cultural mash-up for you to think about:...
Once upon a time, a girl with whom I was deeply-infatuated (but had no romantic interest in me) said I should rent Annie Hall from the local pizzeria/bodega/video rental/narcotic courier service...
m19 in idea barrages
You will name your knife YouTube channel “never a dull moment”. Since Dave Thomas was adopted and Wendy has that bright red hair, head canon that Ronald McDonald secretly fathered Dave...
m17 in idea barrages
I mean, GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER is about an old man killing his wife and trying to cover it up by feigning senile delusions, right? Driving to get Ollie’s insulin, singing Bon...
m15 in idea barrages
It’s the new “Fast Asleep” diet crazy, sweeping Tiktok! You medically induce a coma because you can’t eat while you’re sleeping! It’s just that easy! You’re fasting asleep! Whenever poss...
prompt: serve / title: working titles in misc. flash fiction
That common phrase “Rome wasn’t built in a day” is literally-true as far as the literal truth goes, but the beginning is only one part of a story, and the other half of that truism is that Rome ...
m13 in idea barrages
A pop-punk band called Enragement Ring. Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On A Prayer” except every “Whoa” is replaced by a “Whoa” by Joey Lawrence’s character in BLOSSOM. A reminder of once being ...
m11 in idea barrages
Devo’s “Whip It” being a Doritos ad is both the culmination and refutation of Devo’s legacy, all at once. A gross sell-out and a glorious culmination, simultaneously. We are legion, I suppos...
