What was it about 80) that rated the dreaded ∆∆∆∆?
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Gore instead of story.
Logic problems. For example, if I were to write that I murdered a cop/investigator who paid me a visit. That I then pushed his car into a river. And that the police department "got the message" and stopped investigating me when they found the cop dead or missing . . . I would hope someone would tell me that was lazy crap writing.
Such a police department would DESCEND upon my environment.
(The story did not use cops, but another department under city control.)
There were other problems.
Making a binary call on many of these is not easy. Sometimes I like the whole story but hate the ending. Depending on my mood and the moon, it could receive either * or ∆.
But this was an easy call. Also, just in general, the story didn't make a hell of a lot of sense. I guess if you mixed Kafka with splatterpunk and threw in some unexplained supernatural effect and shook thoroughly, you might write this.
As stated previously, I view this more as an editor's mistake in accepting the story than I am bashing someone's effort.