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.
Jim Franklin
May 11, 2012 at 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
Lindsay Mawson
May 11, 2012 at 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.
Anthony Elmore
May 11, 2012 at 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
Curtis Edmonds
May 11, 2012 at 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/
DL Thurston
May 11, 2012 at 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/
Gary Weller
May 11, 2012 at 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.
oldestgenxer
May 11, 2012 at 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.
Andreas Kjeldsen
May 12, 2012 at 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/
John Vise
May 12, 2012 at 7:16 PM //
Mwa.. Mwaha. MWaHAHAhahahahaa
*cough*
http://wp.me/pJy7b-2X
Lesann
May 12, 2012 at 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*
Timothy John Whitcher
May 13, 2012 at 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
David Grigg
May 13, 2012 at 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.
RC Cross
May 13, 2012 at 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/
oldestgenxer
May 13, 2012 at 11:37 PM //
Any prefatory remarks would be misleading.
Transylvania’s Got Talent
Josh Loomis
May 14, 2012 at 7:30 AM //
Two words: zombie pirates.
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2012/05/14/flash-fiction-benjamin-franklin-in-the-bermuda-triangle/
James
May 14, 2012 at 2:51 PM //
Funtown.
http://www.techsavvywriter.com/funtown
David Grigg
May 15, 2012 at 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/
Dan Wright
May 16, 2012 at 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
Jeff Xilon
May 17, 2012 at 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/
Lawrence Kapture
May 17, 2012 at 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
Lamar Henderson
May 17, 2012 at 4:31 PM //
Here’s my entry.
http://www.lamarhenderson.com/the-tomb-in-the-hills-of-the-ancients/
Bronson O'Quinn
May 18, 2012 at 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!
Trevor Campbell
May 18, 2012 at 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
Jon Stoffel
May 18, 2012 at 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.
Mike
May 18, 2012 at 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