<DIV><p>"Ron Savage's tales?through terse, compact, suggestive phrases opens to the reader the inner world of his characters, while understatedly describing an indifferent, often harsh, world within which they are encased?take on many of the vexing issues (such as: war, violence, and the resulting physical and/or psychological trauma) of our contemporary world. His stories reveal what's going on rather then tendentiously preach about the innumerable social ills of these "end times."?Csaba Polony, <I>Left Curve</I></p><p><B>Ron Savage</B> has been a guest fiction editor for <I>Crazyhorse</I> and is the author of the novel <I>Scar Keeper</I> (Hilliard & Harris).</p></DIV>