This was on my reading list due to it being nominated for a Hugo award.
I would have only given it a single star, but the segment of dialogue below earned a second.

“What happened to her?” I asked, walking on eggshells here, knowing it was likely a sensitive subject for him, yet I nonetheless felt as though I needed desperately to know.
“A, um... A meteor got her... And my family... And friends... My neighbors... My church group... My dentist... My weed dealer... Pretty much everyone I knew, actually...”
“Oh... God...” I said, feeling as though I'd just touched on a very bad subject that I shouldn't have.
“Yeah... It was a pretty shitty week,” said Tyrone, shrugging, and we continued in silence for a while.

Beyond that, it was pretty terrible, including the fact that the title is a complete spoiler. ( )

Yes. So I read this.

*disclaimer* It was one of the very few entries that Day got in this year for short story nominations for the Hugo. I wouldn't have read it on my own, even if it might have been slightly funny. It's just something to heckle.

That being said, I read it and aside from the blah blah blah sex sex sex, there were a few slightly redeeming virtues... like the way that the T-Rex sucks on the stripper (as in her whole body) as if she were a lollipop. Or the lasers coming out of her tits.

Other than that? Thoroughly meh.

It was meant as a contemptuous nomination in the Hugos because the Sad Puppies have been getting so much hate... they just want to see the world burn, I guess. I just feel sorry for the author who got mixed up in someone else's anger-nomination scheme.

Fortunately, this is an outlier for the Hugos this year! Yay! ( )

https://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2903351.html

not a bad example of dinosaur erotica ( )

     A last shriek of pleasure, and my glowing nipples suddenly began to discharge, shooting hot beams of light out from between my fingers and tongue. Blast after blast of energy went bouncing around the room, the crowd roaring even as they scrambled to dodge my sizzling nipple ejaculations.

This is neither a good piece of erotica, nor a good piece of parody erotica (there are times it seems to want to be funny, such as the above, but it doesn't land often enough to be interesting), nor even so bad that it becomes amusing. I do know why this novelette was nominated for the Hugo Awards, but I don't know why it exists to begin with.