FB: “Funny story: I only saw THE MATRIX last Friday. This was actually inspired more by Eighties SWAMP THING, with all its talk of hallucinogenic ‘tubers.’ See, I didn’t realize ‘tuber’ was a common name for an edible part of a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We hadn’t intended to include this faction in the chapter until its final pages, but Flo saw an opportunity to link our two main plots and went with it. In line with what I said earlier about HR The Inevitable […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ideas for “fun in the sun, surf, and sand” were starting to feel thin on the ground, so Flo conceived this switch in focus. At this point in the story, JJ’s been introduced and is closing in on Xan and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The original version of this page used a little more wordplay, working off “Harold/Herald” and “HR/Human Resources” and the fact that HR had named himself in front of Ulak before. But Flo felt we should have a less articulate HR-monster, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a good time letting Ulak give an accounting of himself here. I think of him as a bad-guy version of C.S. Lewis: an intellectual who finds it rewarding to think his way through his faith, whereas a lot of his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
