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Flash Fiction Challenge: Over The Top Pulp Insanity

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.

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36 responses to “Flash Fiction Challenge: Over The Top Pulp Insanity”

  10. 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.

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  13. 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*

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  15. 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.

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  22. 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/

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