www.popcornfiction.com
This site grew out of a love for pulpy short fiction that used to dominate popular magazines in the mid-20th Century. As a screenwriter, my partner and I have been tasked with adapting several of these for the big screen, including stories from Elmore Leonard and Richard Matheson and Donald Hamilton. Friends of ours have adapted Philip K. Dick and Isaac Asimov and Stephen King. I’ve also been listening to a great deal of classic radio, from The Shadow and Have Gun Will Travel to X Minus One and Suspense. I wanted to create a place where new popular short fiction could flourish, and Hollywood could have a new resource for cultivating great ideas. Not every story is a crime or science fiction story, but each is infinitely readable. I’ve commissioned some very talented authors to take a stab at the form, and look forward to publishing them here in the months ahead. Thanks…hope you enjoy.
Derek Haas
Editor, Popcorn Fiction
Derek is a screenwriter (Wanted, 3:10 to Yuma, 2 Fast 2 Furious) and an author (Silver Bear and Columbus). He started the site and has invited mainly fellow screenwriters to submit their original short stories. It has a bent towards crime noir, but as with any collection, there’s good and some bad. Hope you like it, if you check it out.
I love short stories, and X Minus One - this sounds perfect. Thanks, I’ll check it out.
Awesome. I’m hooked already. Thanks for sharing that.
Good rainy-day fare… can’t wait to read more! Thanks for the share!