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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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keyword: tolerance, title: doomed to repetition in misc. flash fiction
It started innocuously enough but the lead-up to a war always begins a great distance away from where the situation ends in bloodshed. The Great War didn’t start with the assassination of some ro...
sept 24 in idea barrages
No, radio stations, holding onto the terrible wacky morning shows pumped in by satellite but ditching live local DJs is the OPPOSITE of saving your business model, even if it is cheaper in the ...
sept 23 in idea barrages
Your mind is not your brain but it is in there somewhere. You are not your body but you are in there somewhere. Debates like diabetes, I would rather starve myself, I would rather take unplea...
sept 22 in idea barrages
Late summer nights like these, hot by day, cooler but still humid in the evenings, where the loneliness of singledom really kicks in. The crickets or frogs or whatever sing, wish I could share ...
sept 21 in idea barrages
You will write your Goonies fan-fiction under the pseudonym “Chunk Tingle”. There was, in the middle 1940s, an English teacher at Berkeley High School who taught both Philip K Dick and Ursula...
the bear went over the mountain in poetry
it’s difficult enough to be passed over for someone or something when it is actually in some concrete way better than you stronger faster smarter richer younger older bigger smaller whate...
sept 20 in idea barrages
If Elvis had faked his death, he’s surely dead by now either way, the same as Hitler, the same as JFK, if there were aliens in Area 51, they’re surely long gone, dead or alive, Paul’s still wri...
sept 19 in idea barrages
Happy challahdays, happy challahdays, may rich eggy breads keep bringing, happy challahdays to you. “Lego” is Swedish for “caltrop”. I want Neil Young to meet a Vulcan just so he would resp...
sept 18 in idea barrages
A dual purpose rolling pin and bowling pin called “the meta-pin”. A butterfly is just a moth with a P.R. flack on retainer. Only today did I realize that the Blockbuster Video logo looked o...
sept 17 in idea barrages
The Marvel hero Daredevil cannot see, the Marvel hero Echo cannot hear. We are only three more heroes away from a juggernaut of a vigilante team called Senseless Violence. “We’ve heard legend...
sept 16 in idea barrages
Sugar We’re Going Down Swinging by Fall Out Boy is the exact same song as Creed My Sacrifice and… it makes sense. Fear makes you stupid. If I could chisel any phrase into stone as humanity’s ...
sept 15 in idea barrages
The irony of EZ pass, a line of 3 tractors waiting for ease while I in my station wagon claim my ticket from a human and keep moving on. If it is possible that your action will be appreciated...
keyword: loose, title: it's a life in misc. flash fiction
“That’s impossible,” Phil heard a familiar man’s voice saying, despite being nearly asleep, “that can’t be me.” “It is, Philip,” he heard a second voice, unmistakably female, authoritative and ye...
sept 14 in idea barrages
Your band will cover Imagine Dragons songs on renaissance instrumentation and call itself IMAGINE DUNGEONS. No, the best name for a rapper in 2019 would be “Jung Milwaukee”. If WATERWORLD ...
we are all of us just complicated bundles of interiorized narrative both foisted upon us and alternately self-invented we are all of us just stories briefly bound to t...
sept 13 in idea barrages
Don’t call them “The Spice Girls”, that’s disrespectful, they prefer “The Bene Geserit Sisterhood”. I’m sure the car brand “KIA” means something in some other language but I, personally, woul...
theme: blossom, title: worse than a monkey's paw in "sasquatch of los angeles" flash fiction
The Magic Castle is real. Even if you think I’m just some crackpot ranting about sasquatches, go on the internet, look it up. The internet is, after all, the footnotes to everything. The footnote...
sept 12 in idea barrages
In the 80s, you probably should’ve changed your name to Lawrence Aaron Times and sold positive quotes about movies under your nickname “L.A.” to crappy direct-to-VHS releases for their boxes. ...
sept 11 in idea barrages
The grossest Halloween food product you could make to trend online but wouldn’t be good: “candy-cornish game hen”. I am probably, like, the cauliflower crust pizza of men. Like, I am probably...
sept 10 in idea barrages
Medical fashion: a catwalk where all the designs are made out of CVS receipts. No, the nerdiest parody ever would be about Deep Space Nine and be called Trilling Me Softly (With This Slug). ...
sept 9 in idea barrages
I kind of want to put a domino mask on a Halloween skeleton in hopes someone asks why so I can stare them straight in the eye and say “He’s The Bone Ranger”. The Jedi Council tried explaining...
sept 8 in idea barrages
Shaming people for needing a calculator is textbook toxic mathulinity. Corrupt billionaires lord over their cities by plucking desperate young boys from the ghettos & boonies, throwing th...
sept 7 in idea barrages
I mean, what if it turns out that the cure to all diseases was eating those little compressed sponges that turn into dinosaurs in hot water? What if they’d just soak up all the germs but no one...
sept 6 in idea barrages
Whenever someone calls that part of the wedding “THE RING CEREMONY” it sounds like a badass ritual from an epic fantasy battle but nah. Your running-a-restaurant roleplaying game will be call...
sept 5 in idea barrages
Whenever a gun nut starts talking about “trigger discipline”, yell “ROY ROGERS TREATED HIS HORSE LIKE A CHERISHED FRIEND!” You take the good, you take the bad/you take them both and there you...
