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Richard Mavis designed and wrote the site, writes What it is and other things, designs and distributes our books, &c. If acycle.org is doing it, Richard is doing it.
Ezekiel Buchheit writes Sleep Deprived, wrote Best of Gas Station Sluts and a few other novels that only one or two other people have seen so far, and is a busy student of biology and father of four.
So one sticky night in Austin Ezekiel and Richard were bittersweetly celebrating Richard's graduation from the University of Texas. The next day Richard was to empty his apartment into his Hyundai Accent and schlep his way to Dallas and the future. But that night they would celebrate.
Ezekiel would cook the dinner; Richard would bring the booze; a mutual friend had a surprise ready for dessert, fresh arrived that day from the Czech Republic. "Yes, bring some sugar too," Ezekiel warned.
They enjoyed beer with their soup, sake with their California rolls, wine with their beer, and beer with their cigarettes. And five hours later, when it was evident that they needed more, they ran to the store for it.
On their way back, walking after racing, they decided to start a journal. A journal or a magazine or whatever—a live wire to keep them and their kind active and connected.
The rest of the night is lost to memory. Legend has it that a video might exist—Richard remembers grabbing a video camera from Ezekiel's wife's hands and spin tossing it to the floor—but as of this writing, the claim hasn't been verified.
And a year and a half later, Cycle was born. (The gestation period of genius, naturally, is longer than that of mediocrity.)(It took me 16 tries to get that sentence right.)
Yes. So Cycle is about the people who sustain it. About their lives and their ideas and their passions and concerns. It's about their need to create and to connect and to recall, an effort to make sense of it all.
Thus, you'll find journalism, fiction, pictures and sounds, essays and diatribes and reviews and other things. If you'd like to contribute, given certain conditions, we'd be happy for you to be a part.
So there you go. Everything else, you can discover yourself.
Why not?
Ingenuity, man.