Chara M. Curtis resides Pacific Northwest. A recent recipient of the Washington Governor's Writers Award, she makes sporadic trips to Turkey haphazardly gathering material for The First Great AmeriTurk Novel and subsequent screenplay. "Conditions" is her first published short story. chara@cnw.com   Kevin Dolgin is a New York native who has lived in Paris for the past fifteen years. When not writing, he does unmentionable things with businesses and unsuccessful things with music. "Fix" marks his first appearance in a fiction publication. kdolgin@club-internet.fr   Charles Allen Wyman (Guest Editor) A recent Wisconsin Arts Board grant recipient, CAW divides his time between Madison and Spring Green, Wisconsin. Author of the languishing novel The Nether Box, Wyman is currently working on his second novel and a collection of disturbed short stories. He is also the editor of BBMC: A Literary Website. Interests include Puccini arias, gorgonzola cheese, fianchettoed bishops, and the vagaries of mental abstraction. babybaby@execpc.com   Vanessa Dodge (Guest Editor) has been published in the Blue Moon Review, The Atlanta Journal, Z Magazine, and Glamour. She is currently at work on a satirical novel with the working title "A Companion for the Creatively Blocked." A British-American hybrid, she lives in Atlanta with her Australian husband and Coloradan cat. vdodge@emory.edu