About the Authors

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ALEXIS BIEDENFELD
Age: 16, Grade: 11th, School: Westbury, Houston, TX.
Favorite TV Show: "Dr. Who"

Our society dances in an idiot frenzy and refuses to accept 
abnormalities My dearest wish is to be a person or to know a person 
who has outlived time. We would finally know the truth, but no one 
would believe it. Is truth that which has occurred or that which 
the majority believes has occurred?

DAVID BIERMA
Age: 16, Grade: 11th, School: Westbury, Houston, TX
Favorite Music Group: "Dream Theater"

I am into guitar and practice whenever I can. I like rock, metal and 
jazz, but will listen to anything cool whether its blues, country or 
death metal. 


VICKI CLOWE
Age: 15, Grade: 9th, School: Westbury, Houston, TX.
Favorite Book: The Outsiders

I love to write. I hate watching most TV and am content listening to 
the radio and day dreaming. I spend most of my time with my boyfriend 
to whom I read my pieces. I have a journal that I keep and write in 
when I feel something happen.

JACQUELINE DOMBROWSKI
Age: 15, Grade: 9th, School: Westbury, Houston, TX.
Favorite TV Show: I have no TV.

I like cats and cats like me. I have nine cats, named: Kringer, Bug, 
Spot, Prometheus, C2, Dingleberry, Paws, Toes, and Splat. I eat too 
much cholesterol, but I'm not fat or overweight.

JEFF HATHORN
Age 17, Grade 11th, School Westbury, Houston TX
Favorite Insult: "You Smeghead!"

I am the most intelligent discipline impaired student at Westbury.

MICHAEL JOE
Age: 16, Grade: 11th, School: Westbury, Houston, TX.
Favorite Book: Howard Stern: Private Parts

I am a junior at Westbury High School and enjoy playing basketball 
with my friends.

JOHN SHELL
Age:18, Grade 12th, Wschool: Westbury, Houston, TX
Favorite Ice Cream: Cold, preferrably frozen.

I am the average American person, except that I'm abnormal. My 
favorite jelly bean is the one labeled `Prozac'. Turkey makes me 
hurl, but anchovies don't. But I don't like anchovies. I don't like 
turkey either.

GEOFFREY WANAMAKER
Age: 17, Grade: 12th, School: Westbury
Favorite Role Model: My father.

I came to America nine months ago. I am from Africa and I enjoy my 
time in America, but it could never be my home. There is too much 
racism and hatred here.
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V. WALKER
Age 24, Employed, Rice Graduate.
Favorite TV Show: "Banacek"
Favorite Music: "Leonard Nimoy Sings the Blues"

There is a man. He sits on a sofa, playing with his cat. he wonders why 
he paid so much for a sofa and so little for his cat. Is price, he 
wonders, directly proportional to immobility? If so, how do plane 
tickets fit in? He turns on the TV and anesthetizes himself.

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JANICD KUSIN
Courses/Grades: Transitional English/9th
School: Robert E. Lee, Houston, TX.
Favorite TV Show: "Bill Nye the Science Guy"
Favorite Subject: Jewish History




ANGELA LEMOND
Courses/Grades: English/9th & 12th
School: Jesse H. Jones, Houston, TX
Favorite Subject: Theatre/Dance
Favorite Book: Makes Me Wanna Holler

I am a teacher/actress/dancer/choreographer who writes in her spare 
time. Every time I sit down to write I find that it is the hardest 
job in the world, but oh, the rewards!

GERALD THURMOND
Courses/Grades: Regular & Honors English/9th
School: Westbury, Houston, TX.
Favorite Cruelty: Traditional Instruction.

The contract department had office windows that overlooked an urban 
high school. We kept binoculars on the ledge. I stand now in the 
school's courtyard and wave back at my former colleagues. We can't 
meet for lunch because the campus is closed. I sneak out.