{"id":559,"date":"2011-05-06T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/05\/06\/friday-flash-fiction-cowboys-and-aliens\/"},"modified":"2011-05-06T02:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T09:01:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-cowboys-and-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/05\/06\/friday-flash-fiction-cowboys-and-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;Cowboys and Aliens&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s story is dedicated to <a href=\"http:\/\/thedoubleclicks.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/24\/week-11-aubrey-is-looking-forward-to-cowboys-aliens\/\">The Doubleclicks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d8bsOvoa0hU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/d8bsOvoa0hU\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/d8bsOvoa0hU<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually lukewarm as far as the movie goes, but I was tickled that I could pretty easily corrupt <i>Varna&#8217;ut<\/i> (my go-to alien race name) into &#8220;Varmit.&#8221;  And I think an Old West where aliens exist alongside other exploited minority peoples is a much more interesting premise than yet another invasion\/abduction scenario.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.136\">&#8220;Cowboys and Aliens&#8221;<\/a> at <i>512 Words or Fewer<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"CKL\" title=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>P.S.  For the record, the &#8220;alien weapon&#8221; I&#8217;m trying to describe is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FN_P90\">Fabrique Nationale P90<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ziINAUf6Glc\/TcPFhJl_FHI\/AAAAAAABPag\/8BUCLI-GmH0\/s1600\/800px-FN-P90.PNG\" style=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"180\" width=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ziINAUf6Glc\/TcPFhJl_FHI\/AAAAAAABPag\/8BUCLI-GmH0\/s320\/800px-FN-P90.PNG\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s story is dedicated to The Doubleclicks: http:\/\/youtu.be\/d8bsOvoa0hU I&#8217;m actually lukewarm as far as the movie goes, but I was tickled that I could pretty easily corrupt Varna&#8217;ut (my go-to alien race name) into &#8220;Varmit.&#8221; And I think an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[38,13,43,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-512words","category-movies","category-music","category-video"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}