GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

MARCH/APRIL 2018

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Kari Lund-Teigen for "Crow Advice"

2nd-place winner:

Lindsay Haber for "Jewish Relatives Talking About My Sex Life"

3rd-place winner:

Brian Cousins for "Our Fathers"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Carmiel Banasky for "Sin and the Pelican"
Hillary Behrman for "Rocks"
Kirsty Bleyl for "Rahway, New Jersey"
Victoria Campbell for "Sorry We're Dead"
Erica Frederick for "I Want So Much from This Life"
Dean Gessie for "Officers of Adaptation to Climate Change"
Doug Kiklowicz for "A Working Theory"
Samantha Kimmey for "Eternal Maternal Terminal"
Ananda Lima for "Porcelain"
Angie Sijun Lou for "What's on TV"
Alyssa Marchetti for "The Living"
Peter Melman for "Teaching Methods"
Hannah Nash for "10/20/17, Edited"
Chris Neilan for "Experiments in Time and Place"
Debra Nystrom for "Dream of the Subjunctive"
Lucy Powell for "Counting Days"
Helen Sheehy for "Psalm"
Marc Sobel for "The New Radiator"
Charlie Stephens for "I Am a Conservationist"
Richard Weems for "Substitute"
Andrew Wickenden for "Shelter"
Isaac Wofford for "The Psychic Religion Major"