"Painfully, maddeningly illuminating."
--Krista Hoeppner Leahy
"The omniscient narrator needs to know."
--James Schuyler
"I was dreading it all week, and it turned out not to be that bad."
--Rodman Philbrick
"I wanted to shake you on page 17."
--Colleen H. Robbins
"Put the snot in maybe the second or third paragraph."
--Steve Clancey
"I'm glad we got snot out there. Everything isn't just poop."
--Michael A. Arnzen
"The suicide mat."
--Ellen Van Hensbergen
"I'm not going to feel a lot of fear on behalf of a character I'd like to
shoot in the head."
--James Schuyler
"I don't like him. I wish to strike him."
--Michael Potts
"I'll come of age one of these days and have an epiphany."
--David Roberson
"Bob. . . . How does he know all this stuff?"
--Colleen H. Robbins
"You need to smell Chanel No. 5."
--Jean Marie Fuhrman
"An emotional white room."
--Elizabeth Hand
"I just really can't believe they'd be that desperate for temporary help."
--Eric James Stone
"This story gave me such a headache."
--Erica Hildebrand
"Milk it for all the cheesy glory it's worth."
--Barbara Barnett-Stewart
"If you've ever heard a line in a movie or TV show, it shouldn't be in
here."
--Eric James Stone (quoting Larry Brody)
"I'd like to get out of the gastrointestinal tract."
--James Schuyler
"I don't know if that was me or if it was really in the story, but I loved
it."
--Vashti Bandy
"If one person calls you a donkey, pay him no heed. If two people call you
a donkey, buy a saddle."
--Michael A. Burstein quoting the Talmud
"It may be so subtle that it's not actually what you intended."
--Todd Vandemark
"There's a part of me, 10 or 20%, that is bothered."
--James Schuyler
"I'm a big fan of the monogamous relationship with one chick."
--Ronya McCool
"She sort of reminded me of this evil Yoda."
--Barbara Barnett-Stewart
"This was as frustrating for me to write as it was for you to read."
--Ronya McCool
"There's feces, there's urine--I wanted to be there."
--Vashti Bandy
"I know every possible way a person can die."
--Michael Potts
"I agree with some people . . . or disagree. I'm not sure which."
--Ronya McCool
"This story is beauty."
--Eric James Stone
"If it's wrong, other people will get you and catch you at conventions."
--Todd Vandemark
"I want to see some of his stabbiness. Everyone has stabbiness. I have
stabbiness."
--Vashti Bandy
"I was like, 'Why are you letting her rub your thighs?'"
--Krista Hoeppner Leahy
"I wanted to strangle her."
--Michael Potts
"Loved it! Loved it! Also had a lot of problems with it."
--Krista Hoeppner Leahy
"I would have read a whole story just about the penguin."
--Rodman Philbrick
Vashti Bandy: "I was actually trying to cut down the weirdness."
Rodman Philbrick: "Yes. . . . I see. . . ."
"A fun story though a little yucky once I started to think about the
implications."
--Eric James Stone
"Except you could come up with something good instead of something stupid."
--James Schuyler
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