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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.
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theme: possibility, title: rhyme within reason in misc. flash fiction
In the Realm of Possibility on the shore of Lake Whatweknow, sat a king within a castle guarded by a more-or-less probable moat. From the peaks of the Expectations to the low Despondent Sea, his ...
jan 29 in idea barrages
Honestly, many of these Republicans would reject Trump were they free to but the team around Trump were smart enough to bring so many of them into his corruption that they’d be bringing themsel...
jan 28 in idea barrages
Local institutions tend to be filled with people who belong in regional institutions. Detective Jonn Jonzz being thrown off by a criminal: “MARTIAN! WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?” If you think...
j27 in idea barrages
. The British do not appreciate having “STRAIGHT OUTTA CRUMPETS” scream rapped at them, even though it’s funny as hell. Definitions, categories, names, they’re part of you but they are not you...
jan 26 in idea barrages
I would deeply respect someone who’d create an entire original functional LUIGI’S UTAH MANSION game just to get to the point where Mario would be overwhelmed by spectral fog and exclaim “Oh no!...
jan 25 in idea barrages
A hellish postapocalyptic future where we are ruled over by despotic mediocre pop stars. Where everybody’s working for the Weeknd, for example. Morning radio is now the same two old white guy...
itself afraid in poetry
a lack of fear just proves you’re some damned fool or that you are dead inside we waltz with our fears in each choice, in every second that we’re alive the key to overcoming t...
jan 24 in idea barrages
When you avoid disaster, do not at least at first accuse or fret or wail. At first, at least, celebrate. At least, at first, revel. You dodged this one. That is for the moment the only thing th...
you can reach a point where you have had so many crises you don’t know how to live without inhabiting a crisis you start manufacturing them just so you feel normal again don’t let life d...
down for the count in poetry
Counting on something big and amazing happening soon to balance this all out is almost as self-destructive as assuming the bad times will ceaselessly roll. All we can do is take...
i am bicpentameter in poetry
Am I the only one bothered that anagram isn’t an anagram? Am I the only one bothered that palindrome isn’t a palindrome? Is anyone else bothered that onamonapia isn’t an onamonapia? Tha...
the abyss, as in a mirror dimly in poetry
liberation from oppression is of vital import but the moment we go past that and oppress others we are even worse than those who hurt us until our hurt stared back this can never be abou...
jan 23 in idea barrages
The new slang for pot will be “Portland oregano”. I hate this idea that evolving on a position is a sign of weakness or deceit, as if you’re supposed to rise from the sea, Venus on the half s...
prompt: desultory, title: don't get carried away in misc. flash fiction
We’d expected the Rapture to be fun, of course. We figured it would leave humanity without the sanctimonious stick-in-the-mud hypocrites and full-stop psychotics that’d ranted about it for the la...
prompt: beauty, title: beauty and the beast and werewolves in misc. flash fiction
In the large print of happy endings, certainly when wild and powerful magic’s involved, there’s almost always some unintended horror deep down in the small print. Belle and the Prince indeed got ...
prompt: the apple story, title: goodbye my pretty in misc. flash fiction
She’d heard the story of the wishing apples in the ruins before she understood the words used to tell it. She was always drawn to that tale but when still just a child, the adults tried to protec...
jan 22 in idea barrages
Though raised on rock and roll, I can listen to a lot of modern pop and think “this isn’t for me but I can see why someone else would like it”. Modern country, I cant. It’s the same 3 or 4 song...
j21 in idea barrages
“There is nothing to fear” means a different thing with every differing syllable emphasis. If CDs were still a mainstream thing and the band Urge Overkill was still a thing, I’d get a bunch o...
jan 20 in idea barrages
It feels like the warm spell on a March Ash Wednesday right before an Easter blizzard. The finest way to support the military is to never use them. You gotta not look back as the past reced...
jan 19 in idea barrages
Your “Addicted To Love” parody will involve the line “Midas well face it, you make gold out of stuff”. Now that Tarantino isn’t doing a Star Trek, maybe he can do a Sherlock Holmes called “Th...
known unknowns in poetry
everywhere everyone everyone everywhere has a name had a name was called something particular by very many someones if not anymore at least once just because those names did not surv...
you can, of course squeeze at a stone until there’s blood the blood won’t be from the stone, the blood will be your own that’s all but squeeze and blood and stone they’ll all be presently ...
jan 18 in idea barrages
Is anyone else bothered that onamonapia isn’t an onamonapia? If you’re on tumblr claiming to spiritually identify as a trickster imp, are you Rumplestiltskinkin? You can waste your time and...
jan 17 in idea barrages
The boa killed the first two fluteplayers and yet nevertheless, she was undeterred. She just smiled. “Third time’s the charmer.” I recently saw a self help book called The Courage To Be Rich ...
jan 16 in idea barrages
Once every four years, end of February, we should all just stop what we’re doing and binge watch Quantum Leap for a day. If you’re born rich, you shouldn’t get credit for making yourself more...
