Re: “Day of the Deadly”
From InBrightestDay on October 25, 2019
LOL! That may be the funniest first line of a review I’ve ever read.
Turns out the underworld is a real sausage party.
That was a spur-of-the-moment dialogue choice. I know that an expert can reload a bolt-action rifle in less than 3 seconds, but I wasn’t sure whether Enrique, who has presumably been practicing with semiautomatics, would actually be able to do it that fast. So I decided not to try to put a time frame on it.
The whole “man in a woman’s body” thing was something I’d never written before, so a lot of amusing thoughts like that came up. It was still pretty awkward to write sometimes, because I was like, “Marta grabbed him...grabbed her...grabbed them?”
I didn’t either. Ultimately, I just chose sex over gender.
This being a Halloween/Day of the Dead story, I felt like I had to include at least one horror element.
Thanks for reviewing it!