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Hi, and welcome to Pulp Decameron. Pulp Decameron is a creative writing journal for Philip Sandifer. This first entry is the table of contents. If you want the latest story, just scroll past it.
The current project, a set of 100 microfictions, began on June 1st, with ten new genres. Its intro can be found here. The stories so far are:
Believe it or Not: More Likely than Not, Believe it? Or Not?, I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing, Snip!
Crime: Crimes of Fiction, Three vignettes, The Best Beat in the World, Overkill
Exploration: Buried Things, Everyone's Gotta Detect Something, X Marks the Grave, If Only He'd Used the Sonic Key Finder
Funny Animal: Some comments on major anthropomorphic animals, Like Bird Flu, Only Worse, A Better Maustrap
Jungle: Someone Has Performance Issues, Grade School Recap, Highly Evolved Interactive Fiction, Squick!
Medical: Malpractice, He's Only a Two Million Dollar Man After Taxes, Gray's Anatomy for Dummies, Laying Down the LAW
Romance: Love as Hood Ornament, Because Sometimes Things are True, The Perils of Self-Love, Painful Things,
Suspense: Paper Terrorists, Secret Agency Man, We Apologize for the Inconvenience, Hand of God
Video Games: At 99 Lives, The Mushroom Turns Into Gold, And When You're Old Enough, Mommy Will Tell You About Bounus Levels, The Sweet Release of Death, I Am Become Mom, The Destroyer of Worlds
War: Spread your wings and go, Boom Flames, The Pulp That Launched a Thousand Fetishes, Burning the Cookies,
Past projects have included:
The First Decameron ran from December of 2004 through March of 2005, and featured 10 stories each from 10 different genres. An explanation of the project can be found here. The stories follow:
Detective: Chalk, Hepatascopy, Victim's Rights, An Altogether Too Complicated Plan, In the Dark, All Crime Scenes Look the Same, Crime and Potroast, Bring out your... oh, wait, nevermind, here they are, The Skinny, As it Were, The Car Fire, The Case of the Change in Outfits.
Fantasy: A Child's Question, Dragon Tales, Rise of the Kerrin Dynasty, Economic Adventures, Orcs, Old Kingdoms, DWARF SEX!, You Can't Write Slash Fiction if the Sex is Already in the Story, I am so Lonely, Run Away.
Horror: A Bestiary of Horrors, Zombie Nation, Rear Window, The Strange Facts, The Obligatory Vampire Story, Fog, I am Terrifide of Dogs, Cthulhu Hurts Families, The Complete Endings of H.P. Lovecraft, Monstrosity of the Closet.
Pirate: Peghead, The Letter, A Pirath Sthory, The Great Pirate Blackheart, The Crawling Sea, Keel, He's a Lover< Not a Fighter, Twice Told Tales, Communal Storytelling, Hookplay.
Science Fiction - Earth Based: The Good Ship Lollypop, Our Future is in the Stars, In the Future, I'm Watching Your Every Move, Cyber, The World's Fastest Sex Change, Scenes from a High School Lit Mag, Psychoanalytic Topology, UFO Defense.
Science Fiction - Space Based: Folly, Alpha, William Moulton Marston is the Man in the Moon, The Less Glamorous Side of Time Loops, Why Faster than Light Travel May be a Bad Idea, The Yellow Planet, If Laika Were a Cat, A Gigantic Nuclear Furnace, Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Goth Robot, Cara's Special Clown World.
Spy: Doctor Martin's Tale, I Am Ready To Serve My Country, Letters to Santa, We Can't All Have Job Satisfaction, Flea Circus, Foiled Again, Interrogation Memes from the Neo-Future, I can read all about you, Walls, Black and White.
Superhero: Super-Duper Supermen!, A Public Service Announcement From Captain Cobalt, Rejected Superhero Origins, Death Gorilla Attacks, She's an Angel, Seventeen syllables to a haiku, eight haiku to a microfiction, We Are All Special, Origins, Somebody Save Me, Phantasmagoria.
Urban Fantasy: The Disappearance, Doors, A Fairy Tale, Drifts, Cupidity, You see, my mother doesn't love me. Why should she?, Next Time, Try Flesh Golems, Down on the Farm, Nympho, Street Corners.
Western: A Homoerotic Cowboy Story, Heading Into Reno, Oasis, Draw Space, Untitled, Old Cowboys Don't Die, True West, Cowboys and Indians, Drought, The Man with No Name.
The first 50 stories of the Decameron got "Director's Commentary" after the fact. With story #51, I began adopting the habit of annotations. The first director's commentary is here, and the second is here.
In late 2005, I did a brief revival of stories in the Neo-Futurist style. The introduction to this run is here. The stories were: Grief Them All, List of Things That Happened More than a Year Ago That I'm Still Upset About, Friends and family, Recipe I will cook for an attractive girl, translated into the language of origin via Babelfish, I almost believed that the pictures were all I could see, A sequel of sorts, TMI, Neurosis Theatre, Questions and Answers, Dialectic, The sounds of silence, Thing I Said to a Friend Today, Clay in your hands, A Brief Interlude of Illusory Modes of Performance, Bicycle Bicycle Where Are You Going, A search for direction, Oops, Disfigurement, Color, The Ten Oldest Word Documents on My Computer, The Writing's On the Wall, The Story, Numb3rs, A twirl behind the curtain, Everybody wants a pony, but nobody wants to shovel horseshit, A Dream is a Wish Your Libido Makes, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern it Ain't, Friday is Open Mic Night, Writer's Block, Things That Are Probably Not as Funny as I Think They Are, Autumnal, Breaking Through, On Living in Florida, Authenticity, Clarification, A punch to the gutness.
On Christmas of 2004, I did a reading of H.P. Lovecraft's "Nyarlathotep". It can be found in two parts: One, and Two.
In March of 2005, Cara Milne did a guest run of ten stories. Her intro is here. Her ten stories were: After Dinner Theater, Sitting next to Route 66, Room 213, Just Deserts, Face at the Corner, Evening Preperations, A Civil Trial, Midnight Run, Typical day, Do you see?.
In March of 2005, Glenn Nowak did a run of ten stories: Dressing the Dead, The Price of Freedom, A spring break journal written on the back of several Whopper wrappers while sleeping in the park, A Conversation Underwater, Carson Daley and the Boa Conspiracy, Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a daddy, Seven minutes, Riding the Loop, Dressing David.
There were three stories posted randomly outside of the Decameron: Shipping Errors Happen All the Time, The Zoo, and March.
Finally, there was a brief and aborted run of lipograms: New Beginning, However Dull, An Easier One, I Am Quite Sure, B is for Brownie. That's Strangely Inadequate for Me, The Quick Brown Fox is Jumping Over the Lazy Canine, Tardy, Nobody's My Neighbor, and Holy, Holy, Holy Lord.
Finally, in May of 2006, this journal became the center of a small media issue. An explanation of what happened can be found in two parts: One, and Two. The story was eventually picked up by Boing Boing and The Gainesville Sun.
Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy.
The current project, a set of 100 microfictions, began on June 1st, with ten new genres. Its intro can be found here. The stories so far are:
Believe it or Not: More Likely than Not, Believe it? Or Not?, I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing, Snip!
Crime: Crimes of Fiction, Three vignettes, The Best Beat in the World, Overkill
Exploration: Buried Things, Everyone's Gotta Detect Something, X Marks the Grave, If Only He'd Used the Sonic Key Finder
Funny Animal: Some comments on major anthropomorphic animals, Like Bird Flu, Only Worse, A Better Maustrap
Jungle: Someone Has Performance Issues, Grade School Recap, Highly Evolved Interactive Fiction, Squick!
Medical: Malpractice, He's Only a Two Million Dollar Man After Taxes, Gray's Anatomy for Dummies, Laying Down the LAW
Romance: Love as Hood Ornament, Because Sometimes Things are True, The Perils of Self-Love, Painful Things,
Suspense: Paper Terrorists, Secret Agency Man, We Apologize for the Inconvenience, Hand of God
Video Games: At 99 Lives, The Mushroom Turns Into Gold, And When You're Old Enough, Mommy Will Tell You About Bounus Levels, The Sweet Release of Death, I Am Become Mom, The Destroyer of Worlds
War: Spread your wings and go, Boom Flames, The Pulp That Launched a Thousand Fetishes, Burning the Cookies,
Past projects have included:
The First Decameron ran from December of 2004 through March of 2005, and featured 10 stories each from 10 different genres. An explanation of the project can be found here. The stories follow:
Detective: Chalk, Hepatascopy, Victim's Rights, An Altogether Too Complicated Plan, In the Dark, All Crime Scenes Look the Same, Crime and Potroast, Bring out your... oh, wait, nevermind, here they are, The Skinny, As it Were, The Car Fire, The Case of the Change in Outfits.
Fantasy: A Child's Question, Dragon Tales, Rise of the Kerrin Dynasty, Economic Adventures, Orcs, Old Kingdoms, DWARF SEX!, You Can't Write Slash Fiction if the Sex is Already in the Story, I am so Lonely, Run Away.
Horror: A Bestiary of Horrors, Zombie Nation, Rear Window, The Strange Facts, The Obligatory Vampire Story, Fog, I am Terrifide of Dogs, Cthulhu Hurts Families, The Complete Endings of H.P. Lovecraft, Monstrosity of the Closet.
Pirate: Peghead, The Letter, A Pirath Sthory, The Great Pirate Blackheart, The Crawling Sea, Keel, He's a Lover< Not a Fighter, Twice Told Tales, Communal Storytelling, Hookplay.
Science Fiction - Earth Based: The Good Ship Lollypop, Our Future is in the Stars, In the Future, I'm Watching Your Every Move, Cyber, The World's Fastest Sex Change, Scenes from a High School Lit Mag, Psychoanalytic Topology, UFO Defense.
Science Fiction - Space Based: Folly, Alpha, William Moulton Marston is the Man in the Moon, The Less Glamorous Side of Time Loops, Why Faster than Light Travel May be a Bad Idea, The Yellow Planet, If Laika Were a Cat, A Gigantic Nuclear Furnace, Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Goth Robot, Cara's Special Clown World.
Spy: Doctor Martin's Tale, I Am Ready To Serve My Country, Letters to Santa, We Can't All Have Job Satisfaction, Flea Circus, Foiled Again, Interrogation Memes from the Neo-Future, I can read all about you, Walls, Black and White.
Superhero: Super-Duper Supermen!, A Public Service Announcement From Captain Cobalt, Rejected Superhero Origins, Death Gorilla Attacks, She's an Angel, Seventeen syllables to a haiku, eight haiku to a microfiction, We Are All Special, Origins, Somebody Save Me, Phantasmagoria.
Urban Fantasy: The Disappearance, Doors, A Fairy Tale, Drifts, Cupidity, You see, my mother doesn't love me. Why should she?, Next Time, Try Flesh Golems, Down on the Farm, Nympho, Street Corners.
Western: A Homoerotic Cowboy Story, Heading Into Reno, Oasis, Draw Space, Untitled, Old Cowboys Don't Die, True West, Cowboys and Indians, Drought, The Man with No Name.
The first 50 stories of the Decameron got "Director's Commentary" after the fact. With story #51, I began adopting the habit of annotations. The first director's commentary is here, and the second is here.
In late 2005, I did a brief revival of stories in the Neo-Futurist style. The introduction to this run is here. The stories were: Grief Them All, List of Things That Happened More than a Year Ago That I'm Still Upset About, Friends and family, Recipe I will cook for an attractive girl, translated into the language of origin via Babelfish, I almost believed that the pictures were all I could see, A sequel of sorts, TMI, Neurosis Theatre, Questions and Answers, Dialectic, The sounds of silence, Thing I Said to a Friend Today, Clay in your hands, A Brief Interlude of Illusory Modes of Performance, Bicycle Bicycle Where Are You Going, A search for direction, Oops, Disfigurement, Color, The Ten Oldest Word Documents on My Computer, The Writing's On the Wall, The Story, Numb3rs, A twirl behind the curtain, Everybody wants a pony, but nobody wants to shovel horseshit, A Dream is a Wish Your Libido Makes, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern it Ain't, Friday is Open Mic Night, Writer's Block, Things That Are Probably Not as Funny as I Think They Are, Autumnal, Breaking Through, On Living in Florida, Authenticity, Clarification, A punch to the gutness.
On Christmas of 2004, I did a reading of H.P. Lovecraft's "Nyarlathotep". It can be found in two parts: One, and Two.
In March of 2005, Cara Milne did a guest run of ten stories. Her intro is here. Her ten stories were: After Dinner Theater, Sitting next to Route 66, Room 213, Just Deserts, Face at the Corner, Evening Preperations, A Civil Trial, Midnight Run, Typical day, Do you see?.
In March of 2005, Glenn Nowak did a run of ten stories: Dressing the Dead, The Price of Freedom, A spring break journal written on the back of several Whopper wrappers while sleeping in the park, A Conversation Underwater, Carson Daley and the Boa Conspiracy, Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a daddy, Seven minutes, Riding the Loop, Dressing David.
There were three stories posted randomly outside of the Decameron: Shipping Errors Happen All the Time, The Zoo, and March.
Finally, there was a brief and aborted run of lipograms: New Beginning, However Dull, An Easier One, I Am Quite Sure, B is for Brownie. That's Strangely Inadequate for Me, The Quick Brown Fox is Jumping Over the Lazy Canine, Tardy, Nobody's My Neighbor, and Holy, Holy, Holy Lord.
Finally, in May of 2006, this journal became the center of a small media issue. An explanation of what happened can be found in two parts: One, and Two. The story was eventually picked up by Boing Boing and The Gainesville Sun.
Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy.