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and plunged his bowie knife deep into the belly of the great white. The shark jerked and writhed as Studs drew his knife down the length of the monster’s body. Entrails poured into the water, pieces of other sharks. Pieces of Lily.
Then a honey brown arm reached from inside, grasping for Studs. Studs grabbed Cookie’s arm and wrenched her free from the belly of the beast. The two of them kicked to the surface and swam for shore as quickly as they could. The sea was red with the great white’s blood as smaller sharks enacted their revenge for the giant shark’s tyranny. The feeding frenzy was magnificent and terrifying.
Studs gave one last look back at the tiger shark. He gave his aquatic friend a final salute and headed for shore.
When Studs and Cookie reached the beach, a small group had gathered on the shore. Dirty Jack was one of the onlookers. He waded out and helped the exhausted Studs and Cookie onto the beach. They fell onto the soft white sand, spent.
“What the hell happened?” Dirty Jack asked.
“Mayan Nazi Vampires.” Cookie said.
Dirty Jack shrugged and looked out at the fiery wrecks of the two boats. “Oh well. Who wants Rum Runners?”
Studs and Cookie each weakly raised a hand.
THE END
Todd Robinson is the creator and Chief Editor of the award-winning ‘zine
THUGLIT.COM .
His writing has appeared in
Plots With Guns, Needle Magazine, Shotgun Honey, Strange, Weird, and Wonderful, Out of the Gutter, Pulp Pusher, Grift, Demolition Magazine, CrimeFactory
and
Danger City.
He has been nominated for a Derringer Award, short-listed for Best American Mystery Stories, selected for Writers Digest’s Year’s Best Writing 2003 and won the inaugural Bullet Award in June 2011.
The first collection of his short stories,
Dirty Words,
is now available as an E-book and his debut novel
The Hard Bounce
will be released in January 2013 from Tyrus Books.
INTERVIEW with JOHNNY
and TIME OUT SYDNEY
By Michael Wayne
In July, Johnny did an interview for
Time Out Sydney
all about
Blood & Tacos
. Due to space, they could only print an edited version of the interview. For your reading pleasure, here is the unedited interview conducted by Michael Wayne (check out his blog at http://wayninginterests.wordpress.com ).
Johnny, what was it about the modern age that was screaming for a return to the gung-ho pulp action heroes of old?
I seriously doubt that the modern age was screaming for
Blood & Tacos
, but they are now. No matter how civilized we pretend to be, the universal appeal of sex and violence has never diminished.
Blood & Tacos
gives the people what they want, except we’re slapping sideburns and bushy mustaches on it.
There’s something freeing about stories set in the 1970s and 1980s. Stories that consciously forgo any political correctness and let loose the dogs of war.
What can readers expect from a typical issue?
If you’ve read the Executioner, the Destroyer, or the Death Merchant, you’ll know right away what we’re all about. Entertaining stories that deliver fast-paced thrills and big action. Manly men doing manly things.
Every three months,
Blood & Tacos
delivers five original “re-discovered” stories from the 1970s and 1980s. Men’s fiction “discovered” by today’s hottest crime writers. The stories run the gamut from “one man’s war against the mob” to “survival in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.” Two-fisted tales with heroes named the Silencer, the Albino Wino, Bastard Mercenary, and Tiger Team Bravo.
Was it hard to convince other crime writers to get on board? What kind of talent do you have on board?
Surprisingly, most writers jumped at the chance to be a part of the
Blood & Tacos
family. I’m getting submissions from all over the world.
Remember, a lot of established, best-selling authors started their careers writing for the men’s adventure paperbacks of this era. Nelson DeMille (Ryker), Joe Lansdale (Stone: MIA Hunter), Marc Olden (Black Samurai), and
Then a honey brown arm reached from inside, grasping for Studs. Studs grabbed Cookie’s arm and wrenched her free from the belly of the beast. The two of them kicked to the surface and swam for shore as quickly as they could. The sea was red with the great white’s blood as smaller sharks enacted their revenge for the giant shark’s tyranny. The feeding frenzy was magnificent and terrifying.
Studs gave one last look back at the tiger shark. He gave his aquatic friend a final salute and headed for shore.
When Studs and Cookie reached the beach, a small group had gathered on the shore. Dirty Jack was one of the onlookers. He waded out and helped the exhausted Studs and Cookie onto the beach. They fell onto the soft white sand, spent.
“What the hell happened?” Dirty Jack asked.
“Mayan Nazi Vampires.” Cookie said.
Dirty Jack shrugged and looked out at the fiery wrecks of the two boats. “Oh well. Who wants Rum Runners?”
Studs and Cookie each weakly raised a hand.
THE END
Todd Robinson is the creator and Chief Editor of the award-winning ‘zine
THUGLIT.COM .
His writing has appeared in
Plots With Guns, Needle Magazine, Shotgun Honey, Strange, Weird, and Wonderful, Out of the Gutter, Pulp Pusher, Grift, Demolition Magazine, CrimeFactory
and
Danger City.
He has been nominated for a Derringer Award, short-listed for Best American Mystery Stories, selected for Writers Digest’s Year’s Best Writing 2003 and won the inaugural Bullet Award in June 2011.
The first collection of his short stories,
Dirty Words,
is now available as an E-book and his debut novel
The Hard Bounce
will be released in January 2013 from Tyrus Books.
INTERVIEW with JOHNNY
and TIME OUT SYDNEY
By Michael Wayne
In July, Johnny did an interview for
Time Out Sydney
all about
Blood & Tacos
. Due to space, they could only print an edited version of the interview. For your reading pleasure, here is the unedited interview conducted by Michael Wayne (check out his blog at http://wayninginterests.wordpress.com ).
Johnny, what was it about the modern age that was screaming for a return to the gung-ho pulp action heroes of old?
I seriously doubt that the modern age was screaming for
Blood & Tacos
, but they are now. No matter how civilized we pretend to be, the universal appeal of sex and violence has never diminished.
Blood & Tacos
gives the people what they want, except we’re slapping sideburns and bushy mustaches on it.
There’s something freeing about stories set in the 1970s and 1980s. Stories that consciously forgo any political correctness and let loose the dogs of war.
What can readers expect from a typical issue?
If you’ve read the Executioner, the Destroyer, or the Death Merchant, you’ll know right away what we’re all about. Entertaining stories that deliver fast-paced thrills and big action. Manly men doing manly things.
Every three months,
Blood & Tacos
delivers five original “re-discovered” stories from the 1970s and 1980s. Men’s fiction “discovered” by today’s hottest crime writers. The stories run the gamut from “one man’s war against the mob” to “survival in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.” Two-fisted tales with heroes named the Silencer, the Albino Wino, Bastard Mercenary, and Tiger Team Bravo.
Was it hard to convince other crime writers to get on board? What kind of talent do you have on board?
Surprisingly, most writers jumped at the chance to be a part of the
Blood & Tacos
family. I’m getting submissions from all over the world.
Remember, a lot of established, best-selling authors started their careers writing for the men’s adventure paperbacks of this era. Nelson DeMille (Ryker), Joe Lansdale (Stone: MIA Hunter), Marc Olden (Black Samurai), and
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