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CHIM+HER interview @ Nevermore...
This interview was orchestrated by Queenie Tirone back in 2002 to talk about the 8 women + Hertzan Chimera fiction embollism known as CHIM+HER. Nevermore 'zine who hosted the feature has since folded, so here's the interview in its entirety as it was featured on the site at the time:

Chim + Her - Nevermore Interview

Chimboy dangled there helplessly, suspended by sticky, meaty tendrils woven into a spider's web pattern. He of course was the center, the star of this little show. Fighting at this point would be useless and he knew it. This was his own fault, his curiosity brought him to this trap. Every time he tugged on the tendrils they tightened. It was becoming quite painful, and cutting off the circulation in his wrists and ankles.

What worried him most was probably the ideas in his head. He did after all, plan this whole meeting...sort of. He came to their lair to observe them, the Creatures. He wanted to get inside its eight heads. He wanted to know what made them tick. What kind of creature could create such a beautiful but deadly device to ensnare people? He wasn't sure he wanted to find out, and when he finally looked up to see how far up the web reached, he saw a shadow moving along the top.

A shiver coursed though him.

He suddenly heard a snicker, almost a hissing voice, call down to him from above. He looked up and saw that part of the shadow had glowing red eyes. Beady, pupil-less orbs that glared down at him.

CreatureTirone: Chimboy...you don't look so good.

It taunted Chimboy, not showing him enough to know who his captor was, but the flashing red eyes made him all the more interested.

CreatureTirone: I bet your thinking.. now I've done it. Now I toyed with something I shouldn've. And you're right. What gave you the mad idea to even think you could team up with us?

CreatureTirone skittered across the web, and he could see by the way the shadow moved that it had many legs. He could also tell that there was more then one of them.

Chimboy: Creatures of the page - what sort of show shall we run? A baby show flittering with pretty pictures and mesmerizing mobiles? Or a crazy carnage of a slaughter show where Chimboy's little cerebellum spills all sortsa oil on the audience? You know? Something incendiary?

CreatureTirone let out a husky dry laugh. Another creature came in from behind her, a similar creature but considerably larger in size. CreatureTirone stood off to the side, eagerly awaiting her big sister's arrival.

* * *

CreatureGrech towered over Chimboy, who's swaddled in the finest silk. He looked very cozy and very tasty…A gooey mixture of blood and random viscera dripped from Creature Grech's gaping maw. She circled her prey, a frantic Chimboy writhing in agony.

Chimboy watched her close in; the whites of his eyes transformed by an intricate network of juicy blood vessels, pulsating with a life all their own….

Chimboy: Who might you be?

CreatureGrech leaned over to whisper her rancid breath hot and moist in his ear:

CreatureGrech: Stop asking dumb questions…I'm the baddest Black Widow you ever laid your eyes on.

CreatureGrech closed in ever so slowly.

CreatureGrech: I can see CreatureTirone did her best to make you comfortable. So tell me, are you as snug as I look.

Chimboy: I can't budge, if that's what you mean.

CreatureGrech: I've got you right where I want you.

Chimboy rolled his eyes in disgust.

CreatureGrech's razor-sharp pincers snapped open in anticipation. With her talons, she plucked one of Chimboy's ripe, green eyes from his head and began to feed. She nibbled on his meaty orb and paused to spit out the cornea, which she found too hard for her taste.

Chimboy shrieked, sending a fine spray of blood from his ruined eye socket. He shook his head in disbelief.

Chimboy: I can see we got off on the wrong foot…I'll tell you anything you want to know.

Chimboy stared at CreatureGrech with his one good eye and frowned.

CreatureGrech: That's more like it.

CreatureGrech swallowed the rest of his eye whole and let out an ear-splitting burp.

CreatureGrech: Mmmm, tasty!

Chimboy: I suppose I owe you an apology. My curiosity got the best of me.

CreatureGrech: Sorry isn't going to cut it Chimboy. You've violated our trust. Now you must suffer the consequences...

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...wait a minute, this looks a little short, no? Don't know what happened to the other six parts of the 'interview'. Maybe it was seen as too much work by those who should have been dishing out the insanity - maybe writers are happier writing than trying to contrive marketing opportunities.