"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

"I had to fight the urge to run around hugging people."
--Erica Hildebrand

"Any story with psionics, monsters, swords, and lesbians is automatically a good story."
--James Schuyler

"They collect their experience points and life goes on."
--David Roberson

"I never met him, so I never got a chance to hate him."
--Erica Hildebrand

"It did not make sense to me that the chicken had not regenerated."
--Eric James Stone

"I read this as a heartfelt story about fighting chicken prejudice."
--Krista Hoeppner Leahy

"The story needs clear rules when it comes to the demonic chicken."
--Todd Vandemark

"I thought that if he did have Spider-Man sheets and she saw them, he should be much more embarrassed."
--Steve Clancey

"How did he get the chicken through customs each time?"
--Michael Potts

"I wanted other gross things to happen besides flesh melting."
--Michael A. Arnzen

"I just wasn't convinced that an ant and a crab would be attracted to a human woman. Imagining the logistics I found an aesthetically displeasing exercise."
--Michael Potts

"Crazy yellow ant tendencies."
--Krista Hoeppner Leahy

"This is exactly the way Poe would do cyberpunk."
--Michael A. Arnzen

"I thought that you really handled the lust well."
--Vashti Bandy

"It seems to me that your theme is that gluttony leads to self-esteem."
--James Schuyler

"He's just a gluttonous cat who's taking a bite out of life."
--Krista Hoeppner Leahy

"I just let my inner child completely free. I guess it's a really dark child."
--Rebecca Roland

"Sometimes you just want to chuck a rock at someone's head."
--Barbara Barnett-Stewart

"Your story is Roald Dahl on crack."
--Erica Hildebrand

"I hate the plot and I hate the character, and you made me do it."
--Todd Vandemark

"On first reading of the story, I'm traumatized for life."
--Colleen H. Robbins

"You want to get the essential lesbian trope established as quickly as possible."
--James Schuyler

"I think it would be cool when the eye popped out to have a nerve trailing off."
--Rebecca Roland

"There's an abstract, dreamlike quality to your story that hurts my brain."
--Erica Hildebrand

"Clowns can't kill humans. . . . But clowns can kill anything else. As long as they're having a good time."
--Krista Hoeppner Leahy

"There's all sorts of things you could have done with that gum."
--Colleen H. Robbins

"It seemed to me that wine bottle was pretty tough. But I've never actually beaten anyone to death with a wine bottle."
--Vashti Bandy

"Too many 'too stupid to live' moments."
--Nina Kiriki Hoffman

"Don't call a rabbit a smurp."
--George Scithers

"I agree with her other comments too, though I can't remember what they were right now."
--James Schuyler

"I laughed my ass off. But it's not good to drive sixteen hours when you have no ass."
--Michael Potts

"There was plot, and I was surprised!"
--Samantha Weiss

"I love healing powers. You can rupture someone's heart. You can overheal and give someone cancer!"
--Vashti Bandy

"It doesn't make sense to poison crappy food."
--Susan Sielinski

"I was just taking a breath."
--Vashti Bandy

"Bok-keerk!"
--Steve Clancey