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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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j23 in idea barrages
In my best metal voice, I was singing “CORPUS KRISPIE, BODY OF SNAP / CORPUS KRISPIE, COR-PUS KRISPIE”. A womens’ wrestler whose gimmick is that she’s an Amazonian Russian fitness traine...
j21 in idea barrages
A head-canon where Ben Folds “Army” and Pink Floyd’s “Time” are songs about the same person at different points in their life. If you consistently fall asleep in Barcaloungers, you may h...
j19 in idea barrages
BATTLEFIELD EARTH made me assume that the children of Scientologists have to hawk Terl Scout Cookies for fundraisers. Honey is so healthy because it’s full of bee vitamins. The unrea...
j17 in idea barrages
A parody of Spice Girls “2 Become 1” about 2 Girls 1 Cup. Jar-Jar Binks down on his luck, endorsing ads for class action lawsuit lawyers on late-night television: “Mesa Thelioma?” Sa...
j15 in idea barrages
Why say “Caesarean Section” when you can say “Cutting Out The Middle Man”? The ultimate proof that A.I. and the Algo are both meaningless and stupid is that Youtube just gave me a Peloto...
j13 in idea barrages
A parody of Crazytown’s “Butterfly” about Conan the Barbarian built around the line “Crom, m’lady, Crom Crom, m’lady”. Have you ever considered that whatever you think created the world ...
prompt: green, title: queen jealousy, envy, waits in misc. flash fiction
There’s more than enough here for everyone. Nine billion or so human beings on this blue-green clod, and exponentially more resources than we could ever need, provided we could more or less shar...
j11 in idea barrages
You think therefore I know you are but what am I? The way you manifest your gothness is your morbus operandi. A dark comedy about South Korea’s mandatory military service resulting i...
j9 in idea barrages
Skeletor’s signature dish at Chez Snake Mountain is, of course, Beef Skellington. Consider Antonius the cross-maker, whose family business lost their plum government contract when it tur...
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...
