Spotlighted the website Popcorn Fiction a few weeks ago:

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.

That summary is written by Derek Haas, a screenwriter whose credits include 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), and Wanted (2008). The site suddenly ‘popped’ into people’s awareness when Haas sold a short story he had posted there called “Shake.” Per the Hollywood Reporter:

Things keep popping for screenwriter Derek Haas.

Jerry Bruckheimer has just bought the rights to a short story Haas wrote called “Shake” and hired the writer and his regular collaborator Michael Brandt to expand it into a feature screenplay. The deal was for more than seven figures.

Now this:

There is a new story up at Popcorn Fiction. Oscar-winning screenwriter Brian Helgeland (LA Confidential, Mystic River) is the author of “At Her Feet He Fell.” The story centers on three lives intersecting during a bank heist. As always, I’d love to hear your comments, questions and criticisms by clicking on the Letters to the Editor section. Enjoy!

Check out Helgeland’s story here.