Alexander V. Koval

Read Smash Burgers now!The title obviously makes sense once you’ve read the story, but I’m curious how you came up with it because it still is a bit cheeky, in a way.It was actually the last line of the story that helped me find the title. It was one of those lines that came to me immediately after I conceived of the idea for the story. It was punchy and silly and I kept laughing at it, so I knew I had something special. I used that last line as my North Star. The word rare pointed me to red meat, and my mind somehow made a connection between that concept and the cataclysmic event at the heart of the story and, well, the rest is pre-history.Is it safe to assume our “protagonist” is a T-Rex? Did you consider any other dinosaur while building out this world?Yep, decidedly a T-Rex! I thought it would be easier to convey that the protagonist was a dinosaur if I used a species that was particularly iconic. There are little hints sprinkled throughout the story: the protagonist’s four…