Sean Klein lives in Northern California with his wife and two cats. "Winning Claire" is his first published short story. seank@jps.net   Mason West lives in Austin, Texas, where he recently abandoned a 20-year career in computer programming to pursue an MFA in creative writing at Southwest Texas State University. He has published fiction and poetry in various print and Web-based literary journals. Mason won an honorable mention in The Austin Chronicle's Seventh Annual Short Story Contest, and he has won prizes for non-fiction in the University of Texas English Department's writing contests. He also enjoys film, about which he has lectured at SWT and written for 24fps, and his Web site on Ingmar Bergman is a leading resource on the Swedish director. mason@pobox.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   Robert Krawetz (Guest Editor) reports: "Born and raised in Brooklyn, I now enjoy the sunshine in Orlando, Florida along with my wife, Helen, and our two alley cats, two Rottweilers and one Mastiff mix. As an independent computer consultant, I've published many technical articles in trade publications. I'm a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the Space Coast Writers Group. I´ve completed one novel, an adventure-thriller titled, Call Him Killer, and I´m halfway through my second, Vengeance Day." bob_krawetz@mindspring.com