Want to become a fictional character?  See your name in print in the next published story from Lou Mathews, recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, a California Arts Council Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize and a Katherine Anne Porter Prize.  His stories have appeared in more than forty magazines including "Tin House," "Black Clock," "The Pushcart Prize Anthology; Love Stories for the Rest of Us," and "The Gotham Writers' Workshop Fiction Gallery, and his novel, "L.A. Breakdown" was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 1999.