GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

WINTER 2000/2001

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Brian Slattery for "The Things that Get You"

2nd-place winner:

Sally Shivnan for "Something, Anything"

3rd-place winner:

Simon Van Booy for "Snow Falls and Then Disappears"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Beth Ann Bauman for "Sex in India"
Helen Beecher for "Night Voices"
Betsy Boyd for "Red"
Sharon May Brown for "Beautiful Things"
Jill Burgess for "Mother"
Daniel Callis for "Dropping Back to Punt"
Jim Gish for "Far from a Fair Country"
Bev Jafek for "The Death of Sappho"
Nathan Long for "Upstream"
Kathryn Merkel-Hess McDonald for "Love Means to Look at Yourself"
Joonathan Newhall for "The Dishwasher"
Naomi Shihab Nye for "Fog"
Matthew Pitt for "Observing the Sabbath"
Ingrid Proescher for "Trepanning"
Nicole Louise Reid for "Like the Moon"
Jefferson Robbins for "Being a Just Man"
Peter Selgin for "The Man in the White Car"
Shauna Seliy for "Glass Works"
L. F. Smith for "Surprise Arrival"
Stephen K. Tollefson for "The Wind"
Ben Tran for "Tradition"
Anthony Varallo for "What a Night Sky"