Free Story Every Week -Beat to a Pulp [Hard-boiled]

[NightBird]

BEAT to a PULP is published online with one new story a week.


Our primary focus is hardboiled but we also accept action/adventure, westerns, sci-fi/fantasy, horror/thriller, etc. No yarns with bigotry or overt political agendas.

This week's story:

How to Stay Ahead by Patti Abbott

Older stories available in the archives.

[odie5533]

Neat site. Are there any stories you can recommend?

[NightBird]

I haven't read any of the stories yet; I just stumbled on this site while I was searching for something.

[Sigyn]

cool! I get the LOA ones too, those are usually what people call classics. They had one by the um <gestures> shirly chick, she wrote the book where people get stoned to death? "The Lottery" I think? I really didn't think she could do humor, and was glad to be wrong.

Oh wait, this is about your thread, sorry about that. It's been a long day wit heat and traffic, I think I'll go lay [lie?] down now. With pulpy stories!

[NightBird]

shirly chick, she wrote the book where people get stoned to death? "The Lottery"

That would be Shirley Jackson. LOL

[NightBird]

Free BTAP at Amazon:

BEAT to a PULP: A Rip Through Time

Dr. Robert Berlin has created The Baryon Core, a powerful device with the ability to predict the future and retrodict the past by tracking the position and vector of every particle in the universe. Berlin swipes his own creation from The Company and disappears into history. The Company's time-cop Simon Rip and the sexy, brilliant Dr. Serena Ludwig join together to track Berlin and return the device. Their pursuit will take them back to the ice age and forward to the end of time.

A Rip Through Time follows the time-cop's travels in a series of five short stories written by several of today's top pulp writers. Chris F. Holm opens the collection with the fast-paced "The Dame, the Doctor and the Device." Charles A. Gramlich's "Battles, Broadswords, and Bad Girls" and Garnett Elliott's "Chaos in the Stream" breath new life into the time travel story. Bringing the saga to a gripping conclusion in "Darkling in the Eternal Space" is Chad Eagleton, who then takes it a step further with a mesmerizing coda, "The Final Painting of Hawley Exton." And for all the time-traveling enthusiasts, Ron Scheer provides an insightful essay, "Are We Then Yet," which explores the mechanics of time travel in popular fiction

The Long Black Train by Heath Lowrance

It's Hell on Wheels. A simpering madman, possessed by dark magic, transforms the night train into a rolling charnel house. And Hawthorne is about to come face-to-face with an evil beyond imagining.

[NightBird]

Free at Amazon:

Vin of Venus

Vin, bereft of half his limbs and his memory, struggles between two worlds--the mist-shrouded, verdant hell of ancient Venus and the mean streets of modern Europe--battling both alien monstrosities and underworld villains on his quest to recover his identity. Along the way he is aided by an unlikely cast of allies, as well as the mysterious, ruby-encrusted bracelet that serves as the only link between his heroic past and grim present. Written in classic pulp-style, VIN OF VENUS mixes Hardboiled and Sword and Planet elements in a genre-bending series of action tales.

[Sigyn]

Originally Posted by NightBird

That would be Shirley Jackson. LOL

i need more than four hours of sleep a night. took a me a bit of musing to get to the lottery even, all i could remember was the townspeople giving kids rocks. It's a good thing none of my English teachers from high school are here right?

[NightBird]

Beat to a Pulp and Vin of Venus free again.

[NightBird]

Free Western Bullets for a Ballot by Nik Morton.

Cash Laramie Returns! Gun Smoke Rises And Blood Spills.

In the town of Bear Pines, Mrs. Tolliver has announced she is running for the mayoral office. She’s the first woman to run as a candidate which divides the residents and sets the town into a tailspin. U.S. Marshal Cash Laramie is sent in to maintain peace and order and to protect Tolliver and her family from powerful allies of the incumbent, Mayor Nolan. In a bid to force her to quit the race, things turn ugly ... and deadly. Surrounded by killers who will stop at nothing to make sure Mrs. Tolliver is not elected, Cash wires Cheyenne for assistance, but will help arrive in time?