K. C. Swier

K. C. Swier grew up in New York reading all the best comics, horror, fantasy and science-fiction out there. They remain his major influences along with favorite author George R. R. Martin. He was a regular at all the local NY comic conventions and movie premieres. He’s even been spotted, on occasion, at a midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The Midwest is his adopted home. He currently resides in the Chicago suburbs with his wife and four children where he lives and dies with his Chicago Bears and supports all the major Chicago sports teams – except the Cubs. His spare time is mostly spent writing but he steps away from the keyboard to help coach youth football and wrestling. He is an avid rock music aficionado and counts Canadian power trio RUSH amongst his favorite bands – his story title here is a lyric from the band’s opus: Cygnus X-1. Swier remains a slave to corporate America working as a low-level sub-demon in the ninth ring of hell: Finance, for a Fortune 500 company. He hopes that his writing will one day set him free from the fiery pit…

About his story in "The Day Before the End of the World":

"Or Is There Something More?" is the tale of a prophecy of doom… not from the Mayans, but from corporate America. Travis is nearing fifty. Just about when he was warned to start looking over his shoulder at work. Travis has to come to grips with his inner fears as he wonders if the bell is indeed tolling for him and if his world is ending.