"It's not a good idea to put a Beretta in your back pocket. I was like 'Oh no please don't blow up your butt!'"
--Kayla Saldana
"This was like Barack Obama's girls on the loose if their mother was Hillary Clinton."
--Paul Park, Visiting Author
"I don't think a woman would turn into a seal in a house--how is she going to work the doorknobs?"
--Kevin McNeil
"I wondered how she got down the hall since seals don't have legs. She would be flopping down the hall."
--Jessica May Lin
"This was very well done. I had so few line edits I felt guilty."
--Kenneth Kao
"The journey to the landfill was kind of tedious for me."
--Taylor Colegrove
"They got back to the ship so quick I got whiplash."
--Dy Loveday
"I don't want to get all Harlan Ellison about it."
--Mark Bilsborough
"My father saved the world, my uncle is a tree—what the hell am I going to do?"
--Barbara Campbell, visiting author, on her character's motivation
"My little folktale radar was going."
--Samantha Kymmell-Harvey
"I don't think I have any funny in my leaf mould."
--Jen Hansum
"This was really cool but I had no idea what was going on ever."
--Kayla Saldana
"I wanted to know what the passive-aggressive note on the cheese doodles said."
--Frances Snowder
"I was secretly hoping that Ed would turn cannibal."
--Holly Stoj
"I wracked my brain trying to figure out what your point was, and I think I pulled a muscle."
--Kevin McNeil
"If you're going for the crazy thing, go all the way for it."
--Taylor Colegrove
"There's the surprise unicycle that just came out of the blue and made me go 'Wow! Unicycle!"
--Lane Robins, Writer-in-Residence
"The sadness made the humor real and the humor made the sadness real."
--Taylor Colegrove
"There was a logic loop in my brain and it broke."
--James Khan
"It's hard to make a smug hero likeable."
--Vern James
"You know what? I'm just redundant."
--Kenneth Kao
"I went through and killed a lot of your 'was-es.'"
--Holly Stoj
"I call this piece 'Ken is never allowed to make fun of my formatting again.'"
--Kayla Saldana
"I want to leave something in the world besides a corpse."
--Brent Smith
"You did it so well that I forgive you for grossing me out."
--Dy Loveday
"I'm intrigued by the fact that Marjorie thought an undead husband wasn't that unusual."
--Jessie Robie
"The moral would be 'Don't cheat on your wife with mythical creatures.'"
--Jessica May Lin
"I'm a huge wimp when it come to zombies."
--Kayla Saldana
"I kind of wanted her to break her hip at the end."
--Taylor Colegrove
"I recommend paprika for beef stew. Particularly sharp paprika, if you can get it."
--Jennifer Jackson, Visiting Agent
"Obfuscating the novum."
--Jen Hansum
"I missed it because I'm dumb."
--Kayla Saldana
"Wouldn't it be cool if they took half a person?"
--Taylor Colegrove
"I saw this as a 'befriend the geek' story."
--Frances Snowder
"I wanted her to die."
--Dy Loveday
"That was a story about-- I don't really know what it was about, actually."
--Mark Bilsborough
"Kevin, you are really undermining my goal of winning Odyssey."
--Brent Smith
"It seemed the ultimate in unsafe sex."
--Barbara Campbell, visiting author
"Horror, like mystery, not only needs to be built forward but also backward."
--Lane Robins, Writer-in-Residence
"A lot of superheroes don't have a superpower but they have a theme."
--Kayla Saldana
"Watch for floating body parts."
--Jessica May Lin
"I thought he needed a good smack."
--Dy Loveday
"Creeping to the story."
--Frances Snowder
"I did like all of the dead people."
--Holly Stoj
"I had a weirdo alert on p. 12."
--Dy Loveday
"I like my plot better."
--Frances Snowder
"He slid into two-dimensionalness."
--Brent Smith
"Maybe he can break the Chia Pet and use a shard."
--Jessica May Lin
"I can't decide how creepy he is."
--James Khan |