GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

WINTER 2005/06

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Charles Antin for "Fat Cooling"

2nd-place winner:

Sandra Hunter for "The Poor in Spirit"

3rd-place winner:

Blas Ulibarri for "Notes from a Polish Grandmother"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Madalyn Aslan for "The Man in the Sky"
Sean Beaudoin for "Planning"
Belle Boggs for "Deer Season"
Michael Busch for "Patterns of Flight"
Peg Cronin for "These Things Will Not Convey"
Stevie Davis for "The Shadow Knows the Corner, the Corner Knows the Dust"
Edmund DeJesus for "Feathers"
Rebecca Epstein for "Broken Things"
Sean Iannucci for "Before The Fight"
Julie Iromuanya for "My Brother Told Me"
Bryan Jansing for "Cold Feet"
Heather Jarrow for "Awaken"
Tom Juvik for "The Last Worst Thing"
Jonathan Kooker for "Measures of Height, Heat and Time"
Tarannum Laila for "Kadamphul"
Sandra Maddux-Creech for "White Fleet Taxi"
Jana Martin for "Galletas"
Nima Omidi for "Haha, Circa"
Sara Pennington for "Hell Is a Smallish Hole"
Amy Root for "One Dry Dress"
Patricia Traxler for "The Secret of Life Itself"
Anne Wyman for "Hummingbird Feeder"