I sent a story off to Carina Gonzalez to take advantage of her free critique. The Zen Pen. I sent her a complexly dark and humorous story about a drug addict who emulates Wile E. Coyote. She didn’t like the humorous element and thought that it would work better as a dark horror. She suggested I take out the cartoon element.

I don’t write dark horror, so that’s out. Without the Road Runner references, the story is just another bad horror yarn.

Basically her advice on how to fix the story was that I should write a different story.

On the plus side, she corrected some typos.

It is one of my favorites and I’ll find it a home eventually.