Is it wrong to make up stories about silly gunfights fifty years ago while authoritarian figures are taking power and civilians are getting massacred as we speak? That’s the dilemma Falk has to solve, in the middle of a gunfight!

The Hapless Hack of Gazpacho Gulch, episode 119 of This Gun in My Hand, was rustled up and branded with innuendo by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Sisyphus, Eat Your Heart Out, available in paperback and ebook from Amazon. (But wait until the strike's over to order it.) What helps me escape from my neighbor’s basement? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:

1. Getting a story accepted by an editor who was then fired, and getting it rejected by his replacement, was based on something that happened to my favorite creative writing professor, the late Dr. Gilbert Cross. The editor who liked his stuff published three of his spy novels under the name “Jon Winters” in the late 70s and early 80s, before getting replaced by an editor who didn’t like them.

Credits:

The opening music was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x

Recorded by Mike Koenig

License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html

Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)

By Carmelomike

License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/

Sound Effect Title: Gun Fire

By GoodSoundForYou

License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html

Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/

Sound Effect Title: Kicking/Forcing/Breaking Wooden Door

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/160213/

Sound Effect Title: Plywood_Prying_01.wav

By dheming

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

https://freesound.org/s/128408/

Sound Effect Title: door wood hit +window rattle slam bang various.wav

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/s/452595/

Sound Effect Title: Crash

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/s/512246/

Sound Effect Title: S10-19 Falling wooden beam; big interior crash; house collapses; long.wav

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/s/675967/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of an interior illustration from Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine, Vol. CLXXIV No. 2 (June 3, 1939), public domain, artist unknown.

How will Falk escape this scrape with The Scrapper? Will he have to climb over or down the escarpment? Will she throw the book at him? Where did I put those stickers with the flowers? Listen to find out!

Scrapping at the Escarpment, episode 118 of This Gun in My Hand, was scraped together and later scuppered by Rob Northrup, with special guest Melinda Flicka as the hamster-monger. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Sisyphus, Eat Your Heart Out. That’s right, my new novella Sisyphus, Eat Your Heart Out is now available in paperback and ebook from Amazon. I’ll post readings of the first two chapters soon. Buy it today! If you have Kindle Unlimited, you can read the ebook for free and I still get two bits kickback for it, possibly more. And you can still buy Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. In fact that’s only been in ebook format so far, now available for the first time in paperback. How did I get through the locked door of your apartment? With This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Santa Rosita is where the treasure was buried in [spoilers] It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).

Credits:
Transitional music clips were taken from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), The Scar (aka Hollow Triumph, 1948) and Killer Bait (1949), films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound Effect Title: Traffic mel 1.wav
By malupeeters
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/malupeeters/sounds/191350/

Sound Effect Title: S16-06 Light wooden door open & close.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/675878/

Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/

Sound Effect Title: Cutlery drawer
License: Public Domain
http://soundbible.com/591-Cutlery-Drawer.html

Sound Effect Title: Glass Bottle Breaking
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/IENBA/sounds/607910/

Sound Effect Title: Mount Moganshan Insect Chorus
By: RTB45
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/325321/
Insect chorus recorded one summer evening, Mount Moganshan, Zhejiang Provence, People's Republic of China

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain comic book cover from Monte Hale Western Number 50 (July 1950), pencils and inks by Edmond Good.