Airalin "I continue to live and die and exist in the moment before the fall. There's not a bridge long enough to cross the lines I've made in my life. Sometimes all you have is to believe in a happy ending."
Bill the Cat "Bill's flicked a lot of ashes, and sent them to their death; he's hid a lot of stashes, and held a lot of breath. He's blown his share of candles, defied a few descriptions; endured a lot of scandals, and caught some odd afflictions. He's made the cops suspicious, he gave his parents pause; he's doomed to cleaning dishes, and clutching at the straws. AcK!"
Jim Clark "I write stuff and wear pants. But not always at the same time."
Jillian Firth Jillian Firth is a poet and librarian living in Cameron Park, California. She and husband Paul recently adopted three children. This is the second time Jill has been published in Swagazine.
Elizabeth Germanio "I'm a 22 year old student at the University of Cincinnati and am majoring in English Lit. and Women's Studies. My writing is inspired by the reality of my life and my destiny as a writer. I'm getting away from the darkness and into the light in my own life, and that inspires my writing at the moment."
Michael Hoerman As an active writer and performance poet living in Joplin, Missouri, Michael writes: "I think extraordinary events should be written about with restraint and subtlety as the foundations of passion; that ordinary events should be magnified and examined; for the melodramas which surround individuals often become fantastic storms of pure emotion and undistorted wisdom."
Liz Kane Liz Kane is a system analyist/programmer by day and an artist / writer by night. She lives in Philadelphia. When she finds herself trapped by her employers demands in cities with out her brushes, she tends to write her fustrations down on paper in the form of short stories and poems.
Luminary Coremaster Luminary Coremaster was born of ice and died a horrible death. He was best known for making decorative greeting cards out of bits of macaroni and string that he found around the house, which he would paste together into whimsical collages of cats and dogs. He is also remembered for his amusing anticdotes regarding other peoples' friends, his unquenchible thirst for water, and his habit of falling to the ground, clutching his skull, screaming that his life was a sham.
Mordrak "It scares me sometime that I can see the bass dance out from the speakers. The projections of sound into a visual form. God, I need more sleep, more control, more addicitons. Addictions to feed the parched soul. I have been contained too long. I must be free, I must find out who that clown with the purple suit is that keeps following me around campus and persecuting me with chants of, 'FATTY FATTY FAT FAT!' I hate clowns."
Lawrence Norton Lawrence Norton is a high school student living in a small town in Iowa. He has been writing for over three years and this marks his second appearance in the Swagazine. Lawrence is working on a book, as well as a project combining poetry with multimedia for a less monosensory experience that can be seen and heard through the Internet.
A. O'Neil "I'm a native Californian who has been temporarily transplanted in the tropics. I'm also a working actress. What motivates me to write creatively...? Little things. I'm deeply in love with all things passionate and sensual -- not just sexual, mind you, but the things that make you catch your breath and hold a moment with you indefinitely. I want to feel the world -- in my heart; on my skin; through my eyes. Poetry and stagework are the only two ways I can fully communicate the hold the world has on me, so I do my best to let my voice be heard."
Psyche If Psyche were stuck on a desert island, and could choose one book to read for the rest of eternity, it would be the thesaurus. She resides in a crack house in Santa Cruz where she recites poetry in sewer systems and on rooftops. As she is also plotting the Revolution, Psyche would be most honored if you would think of her every time you see burning tires in the street.
Brian Rhinehart "Once in while there comes a time when one of us falls from grace, to this end he never looks back for too long. Yet the past has always held a place in his mind; a source of inspiration and torment, fondness anbd regret. Such is my story. Art is my most vital means of expression, whether it be paintings, sculpture, music or the medium of new media."
Swagman "I'm born of South Dakota farming people, second generation off the land. I've been in Santa Barbara for over half my life. I came to Santa Barbara in 1972 from central Australia. My move here was my 20th relocation and I was 20 years old when I got here. I've lived in 10 states and 3 years in England which hardly prepared me for the 11 months I lived in San Bernardino back in 1964. Of all the places I've ever been, this is certainly one of them."
Doug Tanoury Doug Tanoury grew up in Detroit and still lives in the area with his wife and three children. The titles for his Racing Form Poems were taken from the names of horses in a race results. About his craft, Doug writes: "Poetry has always been a return to childhood for me. It allows me to breathe magic and myth into the mundane."
Zepp "I write because if I didn't, something very vital to my being would shrivel up and die. It isn't an obligation, though. Never think that. It is a joy. As I write to live, I live to rework Harley-Davidson cliches. Looking over my submission, I remember reading 'Mehetibel and Archie' last summer, and I think some of it may have worn off, so let's give Don Marquis a cite for probably subverting me at one point or another. As I wrote it, I thought about Ayn Rand's record for longest sentence, 686 words. I broke that easily, and only broke as many grammatical rules in so doing. And if Bob Blaylock asks, tell him, yes, it's a code, and yes, it's about him."
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