"Why is ancient evil so busy?"
--Alex Jablokov

"So the cat took an info-dump."
--Jeanne Cavelos

"We had two flashbacks and a break for lunch before the story started on page ten."
--Mary Ann Marcinkiewicz

"I guess the tiny wings were ineffective, but I just thought they were cute."
--Nancy Madrid

"I became a verb hunter."
--Nancy Madrid

"A little demonic klieg light in my head went off."
--Jim Breyfogle

"You might get really irritated thinking about being a piece of metal."
--Andrew Cooper

"The 'dragonettes' sound like a Motown group."
--Gregory Frost

"I liked the interaction between the characters, even if they were murderous predators."
--Erik Bundy

"I would think Death would drive something more menacing than a Jeep."
--Zoe Zygmunt

"Be offensive. Offensive is interesting."
--Jeanne Cavelos

"Nothing is personal."
--Lorraine Heisler

"...Except the pan pizza."
--Eileen Wiedbrauk

"I think there's just a lot of purple."
--Eileen Wiedbrauk

"Do zombie chickens eat brains? Many of them don't have the heads to eat the brains."
--Angela Graci

"The zombie chickens acted a lot like regular chickens."
--Carrie Mackey

"I was impressed at the breadth of chickens . . . I guess that will always stay with me."
--Matt Kimmel

"I'm not conversant with chicken types."
--Erik Bundy

"What would happen if regular people were to eat the zombie chickens?"
--Angela Graci

"You've clearly been around chickens. Chickens are evil."
--Laura Anne Gilman

"He just seemed like an expository tool."
--Nivair Gabriel

"You seem to have this transfusion line into the causal chain blood bank."
--Meg Pontecorvo

"I loved the story. And I agree it's a lot like cocaine."
--Angela Graci

"You're only going to learn by getting it wrong."
--Gregory Frost

"There's nothing like the exercise of writing bad poetry to teach you about sentence structure."
--David G. Hartwell

"I would prefer to have more description in the way I prefer to have two pieces of cheesecake instead of one."
--Terry Woodward

"The pacing is quite spritely."
--Matt Kimmel

"I was grossed out by this story in a very good way."
--Meira Marom

"He can run up a hill and be panting and it doesn't have to be lust."
--Eileen Wiedbrauk

"They didn't seem very piratical to me."
--Meg Pontecorvo

"A potluck's hard to make interesting."
--Lorraine Heisler

"If you didn't see that National Geographic special, then you can't understand my story."
--Gerald Warfield

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."
--George Eliot, quoted by Elizabeth Hand

"She's gonna smell a lot earthier and a lot less of jasmine. She's been living rough."
--Erik Bundy

"Governess ex machina."
--Lorraine Heisler

"Not some random elf."
--Andrew Cooper

"If you do put in a random elf, throw him under the bus."
--Jim Breyfogle

"If you're going to have incest and necrophilia that might be too much for one short story."
--Angela Graci

"Seventy percent of the value of a story comes from the last sentence."
--Elizabeth Hand, paraphrasing Gardner Dozois

"It used to have an alien in it."
--Nancy Madrid

"It's hard to be a hero when you live near your mother."
--Erik Bundy

"The raccoons are very believable characters."
--Matt Kimmel

"I didn't know if she was happy as a tree."
--Zoe Zygmunt

"I'm not sure if I became desensitized or if I'm so sleep-deprived I just don't care."
--Mary Ann Marcinkiewicz

"I appreciate you giving her a nervous tic."
--Matt Kimmel

"I couldn't come up with a sound for a constipated parakeet."
--Erik Bundy

"I loved the constipated paragraph."
--Nivair Gabriel

"Only trouble is interesting."
--Michael A. Arnzen

"I think I'd just rather have her freeze to death."
--Zoe Zygmunt

"I like a good space opera as well as anyone else, but I like it better when we win."
--Terry Woodward

"I wanted to figure it out before she did and feel smarter than her."
--Eileen Wiedbrauk

"She behaved kind of strangely, but I'd expect that from a fortune teller."
--Jim Breyfogle

"My desire for Tarn has increased."
--Lorraine Heisler

"I kept waiting for the next body part to show up."
--Lorraine Heisler

"You don't see enough done with the lungs in fiction."
--Michael A. Arnzen

"You dumped four names and a rabbit on me in three sentences."
--Jim Breyfogle

"While I think it's not impossible for a guy to wear tights, I don't think those are the same guys who want to fly airplanes."
--Mary Ann Marcinkiewicz

"Who among us doesn't enjoy a ritual dismemberment set to music?"
--Terry Woodward

"Maybe he becomes a ghost and haunts himself."
--Nancy Madrid

"I don't mind that the questions are absurd. I just thought they would be phrased in a more clinical way."
--Matt Kimmel

"I was more for the pirates than the mobsters."
--Zoe Zygmunt

"I had higher expectations for the hot tub."
--Lorraine Heisler