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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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if I knew then what I know now I would make different decisions but I am still a person blinded by my hopes and all of my fears so I’m sure all those different decisions end up ju...
oct 25 in idea barrages
My mental state today: what are all those cars doing in front of that church? Oh. Right. Church. If you spiritually identify as a woman’s shoe, are you a pump-kin? I am the kind of nerd who...
(note: I just wrote a different version of this as a poem but “list” just fit the idea too perfectly) Just for once, Lifetime Channel, Hallmark Channel, when the overworked CEO comes home for Chr...
oct 24 in idea barrages
A sequel to THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN about their rebellious daughter who wants to be a werewolf THE PRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Your series about a culinary detective will be called The Roquefort...
oct 23 in idea barrages
Equestrians hate it when you call the stables “their horse house”. When the people who made Trump, who knew they were making Trump when they took their balls and went home after they didn’t c...
oct 22 in idea barrages
You would certainly get your ass sued to Mars and back if you named your craft whiskey bar “Field of Drams” but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea. The fault is not in the stars, it is in our te...
oct 21 in idea barrages
The way the silver packets would sometimes yield to the straw and sometimes repel it, at random, was entirely capricious but shortening it to Capri Sun was more marketable than Capricious Sun. ...
oct 20 in idea barrages
I mean, yeah, I just realized that you could mash up LONG BLACK VEIL and COUNTRY ROADS really well. Naming your business “Forever 21” is a good way to call down the gods of irony and force yo...
oct 19 in idea barrages
It’s October but don’t wake up Billy Joe Armstrong. If he wakes up, we might have to hear another Green Day album. Let him rest. Captain Picard’s weakness is pirates because he gets real sad ...
they could call it "Take Me Home, Country Roads" or something in poetry
just once, lifetime movie channel, when the powerful CEO comes home for Christmas or a wedding or Thanksgiving or God-knows-what and she magically falls back in love with the strapping far...
a step by step plan in poetry
Step 1: Be smart enough to know you’re stupid. Step 2: Be smart enough to know everyone else is stupid too. Step 3: Be smart enough to know that you and everyone else always has been...
oct 18 in idea barrages
When celebrating athletes drench each other in beers, is that brewkkake? I mean, yeah, I was singing to the tune of “Intergalactic Planetary” : “this Pokemon is legendary, legendary this Poke...
oct 17 in idea barrages
It’s too bad the weather’s not good for an outdoor sale around here come Halloween, because a grave/yard sale would be kinda clever. My favourite thing in sports is when a “proven veteran” wh...
keyword: patience, title: a tiny basket of years in misc. flash fiction
You aren’t your hopes and dreams, you know. They’re parts of you, important parts, but not all that you are. You aren’t a list of aspirations, goals and immutable desires, to either be achieved i...
oct 16 in idea barrages
What if Daft Punk end up being Scooby Doo villains? The idea that terrible chain pizza in one country will lead to terrible chain pizza in neighboring countries and therefore must be containe...
oct 15 in idea barrages
A superhero team, one has mental powers, the other one is part bird, they’re called Gifted & Talon Ted. Step 1: Be smart enough to know you’re stupid. Step 2: Be smart enough to know eve...
oct 14 in idea barrages
ASCII no questions, I’ll code you no lies. I wonder how long someone would get away with the pen name “Dustin LeVent” before everyone caught onto the dust in the wind joke. When you conside...
oct 13 in idea barrages
Finding a piece of hay in a needle stack is even harder, even if you wear thick gloves. The radio station said it was “welcoming” Incubus to a local performance venue and I was like, really? ...
oct 12 in idea barrages
Doctor Frankenstein clearly mistook the meaning of the team-building exercise. When a comic book series seismically alters the status quo, I’m less interested in what’s new. more interested i...
healing doesn’t invalidate your trauma your healing validates the fact that you somehow survived don’t feel guilty that you made it to now you made it to now that’s goddamned amazing invalidat...
oct 11 in idea barrages
They are maximizing the monetization of your fandom by weaponizing it against you, flipping your head canon around, pulling the cord and watching you explode into a chunky salsa of word of mout...
keyword: loathe, title: the last temptations in misc. flash fiction
Three A.M. I’m awake again. The prescriptions in my blood need the toilet more than my brain needs the sleep, I guess. Stumbling back through kitchenette, the cat jumps upon the counter and says ...
oct 10 in idea barrages
I was into polyphasic sleep back when they called it “waking up from nightmares every three hours”. If you discuss old arcade games long enough, you can eventually get to the pop cultural ref...
oct 9 in idea barrages
If you are engaged to marry someone for their money, is she or he your financee? Is Batman’s costume Waynescoating? Regrets, once seered roughshod in my flesh like scars, now thrown into th...
oct 8 in idea barrages
When the natural gas explosion killed twenty, Hank Hill was found guilty on charges of “accessory to propane”. “I’m not into dry-humping or anything like it,” she said, “frottage is mostly ju...
