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.
May 11, 2012 @ 8:39 AM
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
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May 11, 2012 @ 8:41 AM
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May 11, 2012 @ 10:20 AM
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.
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May 11, 2012 @ 10:34 AM
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May 11, 2012 @ 10:36 AM
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
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May 11, 2012 @ 12:45 PM
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May 11, 2012 @ 12:47 PM
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 @ 3:10 PM
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 @ 8:16 PM
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 @ 11:24 PM
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 12, 2012 @ 11:59 AM
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 @ 7:16 PM
Mwa.. Mwaha. MWaHAHAhahahahaa
*cough*
http://wp.me/pJy7b-2X
May 12, 2012 @ 11:03 PM
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 13, 2012 @ 1:05 AM
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 @ 4:24 AM
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 @ 11:08 AM
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/
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May 13, 2012 @ 11:37 PM
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May 14, 2012 @ 7:29 AM
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May 14, 2012 @ 7:30 AM
Two words: zombie pirates.
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2012/05/14/flash-fiction-benjamin-franklin-in-the-bermuda-triangle/
May 14, 2012 @ 2:51 PM
Funtown.
http://www.techsavvywriter.com/funtown
May 15, 2012 @ 7:15 AM
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 16, 2012 @ 2:25 PM
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 17, 2012 @ 5:05 AM
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 @ 12:13 PM
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
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May 17, 2012 @ 4:30 PM
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May 17, 2012 @ 4:31 PM
Here’s my entry.
http://www.lamarhenderson.com/the-tomb-in-the-hills-of-the-ancients/
May 18, 2012 @ 4:23 AM
“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!
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May 18, 2012 @ 9:14 AM
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 @ 11:49 AM
“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 @ 11:56 AM
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
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