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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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f 13 in idea barrages
If you go to a Civil War Re-enactors convention, are the booth babes literal Booth babes? We put the “Fun” in “Perfunctory”. On the French internet they scare each other with stories of ter...
theme: favourite, title: the star of the show in misc. flash fiction
“What was he like in your timeline?” one asked. “Well,” the other whispered, “I certainly don’t remember him being this fat.” They thought I couldn’t hear them, but I could, every single word. M...
Allow the unintentional to look unintentional. Allow the intentional to look intentional. Abandon your pretense in both directions. Abandon your ego section by section. Let yourself admit h...
we live in this culture that profits off never letting us feel contentment, that forces us to always striving but also almost never helps us feel better aspiration has its uses I’ve been ...
the process in poetry
keeping one foot in the practical world and one foot in the world of theory is the only way to be good at either and it’s also one of the hardest things to maintain long-term its one thing to...
the secret to parking a car in a tight spot is not caring is in trusting your instincts more than you care if you screw up the confidence of nonchalance when nothing matters it’s a...
something to be said for that solemn ritual gassing up the car at the end of your long working day eleven, midnight one-thirty or two long after everyone who isn’t either desperate o...
f12 in idea barrages
It’s not hard ordering shirts for the Junior Psychics Club. Everyone’s a youth medium. I’m not no nonsense. I want to do the job well but I want the most nonsense one can have while getting i...
f11 in idea barrages
Its not that the Republican senators want Trump there, it’s that his Russian handlers have so much dirt on them, they folded. If that’s better or worse, that’s up to you. If everyone trying a...
feb 10 in idea barrages
I feel like a boulder teetering on the edge of some high cliff, not quite falling, not quite standing still, all potential energy, waiting for one more little push toward disaster or glory or b...
feb 9 in idea barrages
Dieting would be more fun if we called it “Ding-Dong ditching”. A washed-up Andrew Dice Clay is forced to investigate a vast conspiracy theory in THE ADVENTURES OF FNORD FNAIRLANE. You will...
feb 8 in idea barrages
All the local dogs hate me, now, because they think I am a precursor to Ollie, the little dog that fights everybody. I’m like the Silver Surfer to Galactus Destroyer of Eardrums. Pain is just...
feb 7 in idea barrages
My generation didn’t invent working on multiple jobs on different shifts but we DID have the balls to give it the fancy name “polyphasic sleep” so we do have that. Incredibly specific pet pee...
feb 6 in idea barrages
Antivaxxers on dating sites are all like “HOT SHINGLES IN YOUR AREA”. A really interesting Western musical would be DEAD RENT REDEMPTION. If you are to throw bread at someone defensively, i...
feb 5 in idea barrages
Another great name for a band is Thrilliam H Macy. A really fun plot twist would be if right before the brink, we were all saved by the epic return of Myspace Tom. A story where a time-trav...
feb 4 in idea barrages
I am Felix the Cat’s royal mattress warmer. The secretary to a urologist can get them a “#1 Boss” mug for their birthday regardless of how good a boss they are. The best name for a punk ban...
feb 3 in idea barrages
Be thankful for all my event promotion and weird puns. Without it, I’d be mostly current events and melodramatic vaguebooking and we’re full up on those already. ODB, ODBa, Wu goes on, whoa, ...
feb 2 in idea barrages
Is reptile poop “iguano”? The Inkideney Stones aren’t as powerful as the Infinity Stones but, like, they still can take one down hardcore. We live in a culture so blissfully unaware of itse...
feb 1 in idea barrages
Spice up The Big Game with a party mix of cough drops and Cheerios. We call it Halls and Oat. Clearly you’re just getting the Corona virus because you’re not using the antibiotic limes. You...
prompt: comely, title: for dying out loud in misc. flash fiction
Most of us don’t get to carefully choose our last words but he did. Most of us don’t die so neatly, it’s too sudden or we’re in denial or our minds too far gone from illness or fear to wax eloque...
jan 31 in idea barrages
Twerkers of the world unite, your hips are so loose, it’s insane. Allow the unintentional to look unintentional. Allow the intentional to look intentional. Abandon pretense in both directions...
the defenses you build up against all of your perceived threats are the only thing fueling them at all the only thing making them real let go unclench even if you need to build a whole new...
in failure there is reincarnation of a kind a dream has died but here you are alive and with the chance to rebuild yourself anew outlast your dreams watch them turn to dust and take up ...
definitions categories and names they’re part of you but aren’t you they may have made you who you are but they are not who you are who you are is so much more holy and weir...
jan 30 in idea barrages
Before she retires, Ann Rice had better write a romance titled DOWN FOR THE COUNT. What is a corrupt leader, after all, but a burglar king? Call your fixed blade ODB if it is truly full Tan...
