GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

SUMMER 2005

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Jennifer Oh for "Seawoman"

2nd-place winner:

Blas Ulibarri for "The Country Outside the Country"

3rd-place winner:

Shelley Davidow for "River Girls"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Ayesha Ahmad for "Faith"
Jason Berzow for "Sunrise in Winter over Ithaca"
Ayse Bucak for "Down the Shore"
Lonnie Busch for "Orbiting Earth"
L.C. Fiore for "No Wake Zone"
Susan Fox for "The Garden State"
Dorothy Goepel for "Bolillo"
Hardy Griffin for "Baba"
Mike Henderson for "Onlooker"
Tim Hurd for "The Sturgeon"
Clark Knowles for "From a Carriage Barn, Everything"
Andrew Lee for "People We Know"
Nathan Long for "Real Life Things"
Aditya Pandit for "Sugarcane Juice"
Rachel Pearson for "Birds I Would Have Liked to Share with You"
Sally Pont for "Bookends"
Matthew Quick for "Snapping Turtle"
Sam Ramos for "Chasing the Hellhound"
Kiersten Foraste Shue for "The Birthing Branch"
Jeanette Topar for "Late, On Summer Evenings"
Anne Walsh Miller for "On My Birthday"
Josh Weil for "Swimming Season"