Last week’s challenge: “Must Love Dinosaurs.”
So, Dinocalypse Now is out and so too is the e-novella sequel to Double Dead (called Bad Blood, featuring the continuing adventures of Coburn the vampire in a zombiepocalypse), I feel like I want to stick in the realm of “over the top pulp” — between the two books I throw at the audience everything from jet-packs to kilted gorilla professors to Ketamine cults to zombie-hunting orphans to shark-men to… well, the list goes on. That further calls to mind those images online where a robot Abe Lincoln is shooting fire out of his eyes at a giant city-destroying brain-in-a-jar, and the sky is filled with F-16s fighting pterodactyls and…
Well, you get the point.
Crazy pulp shiznit.
Because it’s awesome.
So!
Your task this week is to go apeshit.
To go moonbat.
To go cuh-razy with the over-the-top pulp weirdness.
Whatever that means to you — “pulp insanity” — just run with it. For up to 1000 words. You know the drill: post at your space, link back here so we can all see it. You’ve got a week. Due by noon, Friday, May 18th.
Jim Franklin says:
Well you wanted crazy and It’s probably all here. I bring you “Lycan and the Zombie Cowboy Monkeys of Doom.”
http://www.thezombiechimp.com/2012/05/11/flash-fiction-lycan-zombie-cowboy-monkeys-doom/
Hope it suits and it’s worthy of a titter.
Cheers
May 11, 2012 — 8:39 AM
Lindsay Mawson says:
Here’s my attempt at gleaning the crazy from my brain:
“Salt Burns Take the Subies”
http://lindsaymawson.blogspot.ca/2012/05/flash-fiction-challenge-40-over-top.html
Enjoy.
May 11, 2012 — 10:20 AM
Anthony Elmore says:
Here it is. I’ll be slipping into a nice Thorazine bath…
http://www.barelyok.com/terrible-minds-flash-fiction-challenge-over-the-top-pulp-insanity.html
May 11, 2012 — 10:36 AM
Curtis Edmonds says:
I have given into the insanity. THOR SLAYMASTER’S LAST STAND. Coming at you faster than a load of red-hot liquid metal.
http://www.curtisedmonds.com/thor-slaymasters-last-stand/
May 11, 2012 — 12:47 PM
DL Thurston says:
I obviously had some things to work out that came from listening to A Princess of Mars. So we have Jack Lincoln trying to make his Escape From Io.
http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2012/05/11/flash-fiction-escape-from-io/
May 11, 2012 — 3:10 PM
Gary Weller says:
Wherein I will present to you, “Monkey Dances at the Teahouse”.
http://geweller-fiction.blogspot.com/2012/05/monkey-dances-at-teahouse.html
Enjoy.
May 11, 2012 — 8:16 PM
oldestgenxer says:
I swear to God I thought I just did this with fuckin Tonto and the Lone Ranger lassoing some goddamn dinosaurs! What the hell do want from me?
I’ll be back. But you won’t like it.
May 11, 2012 — 11:24 PM
Andreas Kjeldsen says:
Okay, so this one has 1150 words rather than 1000. But on the other hand, it also has no less than three superheroes, an insane scientist, and the extensive destruction of a city centre!
http://endlessimmensity.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/the-freedom-fighters-and-the-flying-battleship/
May 12, 2012 — 11:59 AM
John Vise says:
Mwa.. Mwaha. MWaHAHAhahahahaa
*cough*
http://wp.me/pJy7b-2X
May 12, 2012 — 7:16 PM
Lesann says:
I’m now on a mad search to uncover the much-abused copies of Doc Savage I once owned. Besides that I have the insane urge to write a western. *sigh*
May 12, 2012 — 11:03 PM
Timothy John Whitcher says:
Not sure if this fits the bill, but here goes! A little longer than 1,000 words; does that mean I forfeit the toaster??
http://helveticasindiehorrorstories.blogspot.com/2012/05/necrotic.html
May 13, 2012 — 1:05 AM
David Grigg says:
Damn, you, Chuck Wendig!
For a while I didn’t have an idea for this, but now I do and I can’t help but write it, but it’s going to be WAY over 1,000 words. So I might be disqualified, but I’ll post a link to it here anyway when it’s done, couple more days maybe.
May 13, 2012 — 4:24 AM
RC Cross says:
I couldn’t stop with this one. it wouldn’t let me leave, So I’m just wee bit over. (159 words over) but it was satisfying nonetheless.
http://apocryptica.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/the-gumshoes-last-day-on-pulp-street/
May 13, 2012 — 11:08 AM
oldestgenxer says:
Any prefatory remarks would be misleading.
Transylvania’s Got Talent
May 13, 2012 — 11:37 PM
Josh Loomis says:
Two words: zombie pirates.
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2012/05/14/flash-fiction-benjamin-franklin-in-the-bermuda-triangle/
May 14, 2012 — 7:30 AM
James says:
Funtown.
http://www.techsavvywriter.com/funtown
May 14, 2012 — 2:51 PM
David Grigg says:
OK, OK, so I absolutely and totally made a mess of the brief and I’m completely disqualified.
But Chuck’s challenge started me thinking about a story and a plot, and one thing led to another and there was this story forming and what the hell it was going to be a long story but I had to write it anyway, and it’s not really pulp fiction.
So it ended up at 4,650 words (!?!) and it’s called “The Adventures of Tin Lizzie” and it’s here:
http://narratorium.com/2012/05/15/the-adventures-of-tin-lizzie/
May 15, 2012 — 7:15 AM
Dan Wright says:
This might be a little held back as compared to the other ones. Welcome to superhero detective stories, Raymond Chandler crossed with Will Eisner.
http://8thage.blogspot.ca/2012/05/cape-noire.html
May 16, 2012 — 2:25 PM
Jeff Xilon says:
This was a totally new kind of story for me to write, but it was fun and fairly easy once I got started. It comes in at 812 words.
Countdown to Meltdown:
http://www.jeffxilon.com/flash-fiction-over-the-top-pulp-insanity/
May 17, 2012 — 5:05 AM
Lawrence Kapture says:
This has been sitting on my hard drive: pulp heroine.
Molly Strega Versus the Harmonic Oubliette:
http://electricwell.blogspot.com/2012/05/molly-strega-versus-harmonic-oubliette.html
May 17, 2012 — 12:13 PM
Lamar Henderson says:
Here’s my entry.
http://www.lamarhenderson.com/the-tomb-in-the-hills-of-the-ancients/
May 17, 2012 — 4:31 PM
Bronson O'Quinn says:
“Randy Murder’s Swift Revenge”
http://www.disposabletea.com/2012/05/pulp-insanity.html
If the title alone doesn’t sell you, then you just aren’t buyin’.
Word Count: 1,000 on the dot (minus title)
Honestly, this writing was a 180 from what I normally do, but I loved every minute of it. Keep on keepin’ on, Penmonkeys!
May 18, 2012 — 4:23 AM
Trevor Campbell says:
I’ve never really written pulp before, but here is what I came up with off the top of my head:
It’s titled ‘The Last Adventurer’ . Hope you like it!
http://www.mutinyfiction.com
May 18, 2012 — 9:14 AM
Jon Stoffel says:
“Red Guillotine”
http://inspirandomonium.blogspot.com/2012/05/red-guillotine.html
Word count: 999, after taking equal parts chainsaw and scalpel to it.
I’m honestly not sure how ‘pulp-y’ it is, but it feels over-the-top compared to what I’ve been writing lately. On the other hand, if I was there, my only thoughts would be ‘insanity’ and ‘crazy shiznit,’ so I’m fairly certain it belongs.
May 18, 2012 — 11:49 AM
Mike says:
This was a lot of fun – just go wild. Fairy Tale Players. And some sex of course.
http://www.ravensview.ca/ravens/2012/05/over-the-top.html
May 18, 2012 — 11:56 AM