Edward Swafford
Bio
Hello! I'm an Australian writer, copywriter, and healthcare professional. I've written on Medium for over two years and also run Black Coffee Creative on Substack (over 900 subscribers).
Edgy syntax is my bailiwick.
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Frost Queen. Runner-Up in The Sound of First Frost Challenge. Top Story - November 2025.
The corporeal chill stiffens as Fall fades and air thins, bowing to the first. I cower cross-legged in dampness, beneath her cadaverous snow-mounted stare, for she knows I. The tremulous temper of blitzkrieg blizzards is nigh on this horizon.
By Edward Swafford3 months ago in Poets
Blue Peepshow. Runner-Up in Through the Keyhole Challenge. Content Warning.
His name is nothing. Perhaps it matters, or maybe it doesn't. In this hybridized instance, this laid-bare world has granted him a crack of light, and he's come to accept labeling opportunities as a right of reason. He finds a fissure in the plastered wall of suite 16A, the peeping source? Animalistic reactions hold his fingers by their tips as they graze past a hairline fracture in this all-seeing (no denying) window into her frame.
By Edward Swafford4 months ago in Fiction
Pyrrhic Victory . Runner-Up in Somewhere Between Here and There Challenge. Content Warning.
First, come the subaltern shoots of something's not right Passerby faces paint banal canvases on each other with point-blank stares, curtailing boredom like expressionless savants. How are they not afraid?
By Edward Swafford6 months ago in Poets
