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Pulp Engine
On Tuesday, Alan Arnold brings us Chapter 3 of "The Adventures of Nick Lodestone, Pagan Detective." Lamar Henderson brings us some crunchy world building geekiness on Thursday with Part 3 of "Imaginary Atlas."
Lamar Henderson
Part 2
When I lose my mind and foolishly allow myself to participate in the endless Mac vs. Windows debate, one of my favorite ways of differentiating between the Mac OS and Windows for those who claim that there's no difference between the two is to paraphrase my favorite quote from Brian DePalma's film The Untouchables — the difference between Mac and Windows is that Mac was designed to be used, while Windows was designed to be bought.
Scott Standridge
Once, she was hopeful, even happy, with plans for the future. That's all gone now, though. Now, Sherry Williams' loss consumes her, like a cancer growing out of her heart, growing and throbbing, beating with a life of its own, consuming . . . like a tumor . . . .
Pulp Engine
On Tuesday this week in Pulp Engine, we feature new contributor Scott Standridge's terrifying story "What You Made Me." On Thursday, look for part 2 of Lamar Henderson's series on worldbuilding, "Imaginary Atlas."
Lamar Henderson
Chapter 2
Previously, Bram Ravenscraft and the company of Enlightened Angel were jumped by pirates as they hauled a shipment of ore from Tristan to K'ung Fu-Tzu. As they made a run for the stargate opening, cargo specialist Tobias Santana crashed all of the craft's point-defense remotes into the attacking craft, creating a ball of flame and wreckage around Enlightened Angel and its cargo train as it passed through the stargate into K'ung Fu-Tzu space.
Lamar Henderson
Part 1
It's something that everyone who has ever told a story has done, but something which even storytellers don't necessarily do deliberately or even realize that they are doing. Whenever we tell a story — even if that story is essentially true — we are creating a virtual world in which that story takes place, and which we are sharing with our listeners or readers and inviting them in to look around and sit a spell.
Geoffrey Adams
The name of the story is actually "Vengeance Shall Be His, Mr. Wallace, David Foster, and He Shall Inherit the Voice of the Man with the Russian Last Name," but unfortunately that's too long for the title field of our content management system. From Geoffrey Adams.
Lamar Henderson
Chapter 1
It should be an easy run, hauling a train of ore back to K'ung Fu-Tzu from the asteroid belts of Tristan. But the stargate link between those worlds is unstable, and the company of the good craft Enlightened Angel are about to find out that "easy" is sometimes harder than we'd like....
Daren Dean
Deputy Sheriff Skitmore is on what should be a routine call out at the Smith farm. Suddenly, he gets caught up in the long-running feud between the Smiths and the Lynches, the craziest, most unpredictable famiies in the county. Now, all he wants to do is get back home — or at least live through the night....
Lein Nolan Shory
Chapter 2
Jasper Zaley, a guy down-on-his-luck in Chicago, receives a mysterious telephone call from a company called Protagon Ventures asking him to apply for a position with the company — a position about which the caller is not at liberty to divulge any details. Figuring the call to be a practical joke, a scam or, at best, someone casting for a reality show, Zaley fills out an online questionaire with questions that are... a bit bizarre. Thinking he'd heard the last of Protagon Ventures, Zaley is surprised when his telephone rings again....
