Poetry,
Fictions, Essays, Art
and so on and so forth, the usual mix of eclectica. and so on and
so forth, the usual mix of eclectica.
We had this issue fact-checked as a favor to our lawyers after the
debacle with Hilaire Belloc issue one, this was their report.
Contents
Fiction
The Grand Gesture - Tim Emswiler
Money Tree - Nalo Hopkinson
Perpetual Motion
- Dora Knez
The
Survivor's Ball, or The Donner Party - Kelly Link
Poetries
Blind Faith - Stuart Davies
Watch scar tissue shut this face in seconds - David Findlay
My Friend, Eustace - Gavin J. Grant
Illumination - Sareen Grant
The Art of Passion - Gaston
For Winsom - Nalo Hopkinson
The Retreat of Glaciers/Kettle Pond - Dora Knez
Academia - Euan Reilly
Essaying
Watching Scotland
Alan Warner Reads
Hollywood's Masterpiece: James Dean - Joe Bills
Extraordinary Woman, A Review
Index to the word Down
Crossword Answers
That Monty Thing
Joe Bills has a book forthcoming this autumn on that man James
Dean, A Collector's Guide to James Dean Memorabilia. He also
writes on sports and on and about fiction. His Book Review should
begin appearing next year.
Stuart Davies is Welsh and dreams of the great years of Welsh
rugby. he has a line of ties made in Italy. He lives in a Japanese
apartment nice enough to make all the other gaijin a little envious.
Tim Emswiler has had fiction published in many places, it's
fun to check a search engine with his name. This story -- and another
of Tim's -- will be published in Bare Bones magazine.
David Findlay can
usually be found in Canada. He is an artist exploring the integration
of the computer into art.
Gaston is considered France's foremost poet of the erotique.
His biography Gaston Remembers is currently being made into
a major motion picture by DreamWorks, with Johnny Depp as the young
gaston, Tori Spelling as the young Elizabeth Windsor, whose two-year
fling with the young French poet caused a near-collapse of the monarchy
back in 1955. Gaston is currently Writer-in-Residence at Brynn Mawr
College in Pennsylvania, working on what he claims will be his final
and finest collection of poetry.
Gavin J. Grant can't spell his own name.
Sareen Grant lives north of that Metroplois in England. She
hikes, climbs, drinks, potholes and generally throws her weight around
with the best of them.
Nalo Hopkinson
has been and done alot of things. Her novel Brown Girl in the Ring
won the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest. Her short story "Slow
Cold Chick" was broadcast on CBC Radio in May 1998. Her fiction
has appeared in Fireweed Magazine, Exile and the antholgies, Black
Swan, White Raven and Silver Birch, Blood Moon. This story
previously appeared in Tesseracts 6.
Dora Knez
poem from lcrw2 has been picked
up by Tesseracts (no. 7), the yearly Canadian short-story and
poetry anthology.
Kelly Link's book of
short stories is forthcoming. Her metaphors are popular.
Euan Reilly is from New Zealand. He is currently attempting
not to be subsumed into the Salaryman lifestyle. He loves Moog Music.
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