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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 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...
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 ...
