"It hurts, it hurts!"
--Jasmine Hammer

"I'd rather do a messy job than get caught."
--Sara King

"I don't care how it works. Just shoot him in the head."
--Scott T. Barnes

"A brain-damaged pony is better than no pony at all."
--Jasmine Hammer

"A woman has needs--and right now I need salt, fat, and the stink of animal fear."
--Sara Bickley

"A linguistic libertine."
--Adam Nakama

"I recommend any writer study circus freaks. You're flying blind without them."
--James Maxey

"Do not be afraid to be too obvious."
--James Maxey

"It's good and it's bad at the same time."
--Jenny Rappaport

"I'm innocuous. I am small. I am plump. I do not bite."
--Jenny Rappaport

"I'm a pixie hater"
--Larisa Ziub

"I'm jumping on the pixie bandwagon."
--Scott T. Barnes

"The demons just seem Mexican to me."
--James Maxey

"I felt like I was wandering into someone else's family reunion after six beers."
--Don Shaw

"Monkey it up."
--James Maxey

"I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. I have a paper cut."
--Don Shaw

"Character character character character character."
--Allen Barnett

Barry B. Longyear: "You have an obstacle that is just about the same as hers."
Scott T. Barnes: "I don't have as much fun, though."

"Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!"
--Barry B. Longyear

"The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing."
--Barry B. Longyear

"When I read that, I could picture a sea monkey with the butt of a lightning bug."
--Don Shaw

"This is Odyssey, Week 4. We all start writing the bastard children of each other's stories."
--Alena McNamara

"The abdomen would not be eaten."
--Larisa Ziub

"I was kind of hoping she would die."
--Justin Postlewaite

"It's a serious story. There should be no giggling."
--Allen Barnett

"This child is going to die--or have a really bad rash."
--Breanna Wojcik

"Cannibalistic Housewives Club"
--Chad Wilson

"I've left the magic portal behind me."
--Allen Barnett

Jeanne Cavelos: "Are there degrees of abomination?"
Breanna Wojcik: "I want a degree in abomination!"

"That's not going on a T-shirt."
--Jeanne Cavelos

"I would have liked more characters, more people to get killed."
--Justin Postlewaite

"I cheated. I'm sorry. I'll fix that."
--Allen Barnett

"I thought this piece was both brilliant and confusing."
--Sara King

"Bask in that, because everything else is screwed up."
--Adam Nakama

"Your title needs work."
--Sara King

"Do what Justin said."
--Avery Cahill

"Don't listen to him."
--Justin Postlewaite

"The cheese stands alone."
--Don Shaw

"You seem to be falling into the trap of swimming to the story."
--Adam Nakama

"Vengeance is a good motivation."
--Allen Barnett

"When I hear 'mischief,' I think of someone putting a cowpie on grandma's chair."
--Justin Gustainis

"I thought it was freaking awesome or totally unfinished."
--Larisa Ziub

"Your comma usage is interesting."
--Larisa Ziub

"I was displeased that he only got disfigured."
--Alena McNamara

"Maybe I'm darker than I think."
--Scott T. Barnes

"He wasn't paranoid enough."
--Breanna Wojcik

"Remember the caterpillars. Even they had a motivation."
--Scott T. Barnes

"There's no way I could mistake any of these characters for MechaGodzilla."
--Adam Nakama

"More blood is always good."
--Breanna Wojcik

"I was looking forward to seeing a man's head getting blown off."
--Avery Cahill

"Don't kill the donkey with the eukelele shirt."
--Larisa Ziub

"This is a story about when myth pulls your teeth out."
--Delia Sherman

"Be nicer to me now or I'll shrimp you too."
--Sara Bickley

"There's something in this story that's keeping me in a perpetual fog."
--Don Shaw

"It made my teeth hurt."
--Allen Barnett

"I'm buying this book."
--Sara Bickley

"What I'm guessing was the idea was cool."
--Chad Wilson

"She's stupid. She should have died. Completely."
--Alena McNamara

"It's your problem."
--Ellen Kushner

"The evil redneck thing is getting kind of old, but I guess that's because I consider myself one."
--Scott T. Barnes

"Events can be open to interpretation, but the actual events should be clear."
--Nancy Kress

"She could be God dressed up as Marilyn."
--Adam Nakama

"It defied logic."
--Sara Bickley

"Your mother eats pancakes in hell."
--Justin Gustainis

"The relationship between the narrator and Marilyn Monroe seems to change a little bit . . . what's that word--ovulate? Oscillate."
--Scott T. Barnes

"In the second reading I found more things to be confused about, which was impressive."
--Justin Postlewaite

"I argue with every negative comment that was made."
--Chad Wilson