Ask The Author: Sherri H. Hoffman

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Sherri H. Hoffman’s work of fiction, “Blue”, was published in the January Issue. Sherri answers these intriguing questions.

1. What animal would you like to be crossed with?

A Hawksbill sea turtle. Cool facial tattoos and full sleeves. Plus they’ve got great longevity, a sexy protective shell, and flippers like wings that make swimming in the open sea like flying. What other animal can regularly order a Portuguese Man o’ War off the menu? I love sushi, and I never need an excuse to lay around on the black sand beaches of Hawaii, so I’m sure it would work out.

2. Why did you choose Mayfair to be a porcupine for “Blue”?
She reminds me of someone. Someone uncomfortable in her own skin. Prickly. Perhaps someone who is driving drunk from Park City after having made a complete ass of herself at a fancy writer’s conference and then, going too fast in the dark canyon, she almost hits a porcupine with her soon-to-be-ex-husband’s ’76 Camaro. Someone like that.
3. What or who would you like to blow up? How would you do it?

Bikini Atoll….oh, um, no. How about Cassiopeia A? Already done? And I was thinking supernova with that one. Krakatoa? Yeah, never mind.

4. What superpower would you like to have?

Invisibility. For those times when some cute guy across the grocery waves and you wave back even though you don’t recognize him until you realize he is waving to the woman behind you, and they embrace and look at you sideways, talking in whispers while you pretend to be concentrating on the leaf quality of the organic kale. Or like that time in high school when you thought Brad Darrington was actually talking to you, but he was really just telling you to pass the worksheets down the row and the room was suddenly too hot and you thought you might have food stuck in your braces and also couldn’t remember if you’d put on deodorant that morning and, dear God, why was it only 2nd period?! Definitely invisibility.

5. Where would you abandon someone?

At the bottom of a well so they could be found and rescued by Lassie. That would be super cool.

6. When do you prefer to be hungover?

Never. If I could drink without ever being hungover, I would never stop.