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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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feb 21 in idea barrages
As they say, build a new fake name for the next full moon and Facebook memes will beat a path to your door. Your album of shoegaze covers of children’s songs will be called My Buddy Valentine...
feb 20 in idea barrages
If you shorten “birthday” to “b-day” just remember that out loud it will sound like “bidet”. I guess I’ve built parodies around less than hearing “the sutures were wide open” in a Tom Petty s...
feb 19 in idea barrages
Whenever a youtuber says “links in the description” I hope there’s gonna be a big ol’ picture of a lynx and they always let me down. Maybe the problem with 21 Pilots is maybe that’s not enoug...
“things haven’t made sense in a long time” he said “that’s okay” she replied “things never made sense” “that’s just a veil time lifted from before your eyes” “now you know that things don...
bearing witness in poetry
when they say “bear witness” they really mean that you do bear it you are burdened with knowledge weighed down by understanding your shoulders sag under the ...
feb 18 in idea barrages
When they say “bear witness” they really mean it, you bear it. You are burdened with knowledge, your shoulders sag under the weight of experience. You grit your teeth and heft anyway. A Stone...
feb 17 in idea barrages
Is a sorcerer that officiates marriages a “wedlock”? A movie called ACTUAL EMPIRE RECORDS about the music section on the PX on the under-construction Death Star and instead of Rex Manning Day...
feb 16 in idea barrages
The old urban legend that some bubble gum had spider eggs is a hell of a platform for a parody of that Gwen Stefani song “Spider Webs”. When global warming floods the coastal states, will we ...
feb 15 in idea barrages
“Things haven’t made sense in a long time,” he said. “That’s okay,” she replied, “they never made sense, that was just a veil lifted from before your eyes.” “Oh.” Ships are only worthwhile if...
feb 14 in idea barrages
The exotic animal trafficker was tired of the hustle. It was time to cash in her chimps and get out. If you are a Canadian teen heart-throb and you don’t get the insult “HEY, LEAF GARRETT!” t...
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...
