Saturday, December 20, 2008

BTAP #2: Hard Bite by Anonymous-9

I would hate to be challenged to a hardboiled laptop duel with Anonymous-9 -- I'd lose. This lady is the hardest of the hard. Somehow I always picture her back in the 1930's writing for Black Mask and knocking out incredible prose for a penny a word. If she had, we would be reading her collected works today. I received a couple emails on how I was going to follow up Patti Abbot's stellar story that launched our site. The answer is by turning 180 degrees and shooting the audience down a long dark alley where A-9 is waiting with Hard Bite.
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12 comments:

  1. Charles GramlichDecember 20, 2008 at 11:06 PM

    Fine choice for round 2. This one realy kept the punches coming.

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  2. James ReasonerDecember 21, 2008 at 12:31 AM

    Great story. I hadn't read anything by Anonymous-9 before, but I'll be looking for her stories now.

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  3. Barbara MartinDecember 21, 2008 at 5:33 AM

    Ingenious.

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  4. sandra seamansDecember 21, 2008 at 6:28 PM

    Wow, David! BTAP is off to a brilliant start. congrats!

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  5. David CranmerDecember 21, 2008 at 6:41 PM

    I couldn't be happier with the first two stories. So powerful and so different. Next up is another hardboiled offering and then a western by Jack Martin. If anyone has a Doc Savage style pulp, it would be much appreciated.

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  6. Terrie Farley MoranDecember 21, 2008 at 8:36 PM

    Wonderful, just wonderful. I actually caught myself holding my breath.

    Terrie

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  7. AnonymousDecember 22, 2008 at 8:49 AM

    You are on a roll. HARD BITE was a thrill of a ride.

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  8. JoshuaDecember 22, 2008 at 10:20 AM

    great story. and yeah, Far Side rocks! sorry to hear about the fender bender

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  9. AnonymousDecember 22, 2008 at 10:30 AM

    Dave, this story is a future hardboiled classic.

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  10. sandra seamansDecember 22, 2008 at 7:46 PM

    Don't know if you caught it or not,David, but Eastern Standard Crime reviewed both stories and had nice things to say about BTAP. Pretty cool! Actually, very cool!

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  11. David CranmerDecember 22, 2008 at 7:58 PM

    Sandra, I did see that. Very nice indeed. This has been an incredible high for the last couple of weeks. I'm sure I will wake up soon. :)

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  12. AnonymousDecember 23, 2008 at 3:46 PM

    Anonymous-9 here
    Everbody just knocked me out with the comments. I've been thinking about making Hard Bite into a novel for a while now. These comments are so encouraging that they may push me into it.

    The great thing about BTAP is no matter what kind of wierd genre a writer comes up with, if it's good, it can find a home here. I think David came up with a particularly ingenious short story site.
    Anonymous-9

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