GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

FEBRUARY 2009

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Rolaine Hochstein for "Virtuous Woman"

2nd-place winner:

Anne de Marcken for "Best Western"

3rd-place winner:

Evan Christopher Burton for "Levitation"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Ken Barris for "Five Minutes"
Aileen Carson for "Conflict in the Sixties"
Merrill Feitell for "O! To Win the West!"
Louis Gallo for "Hors d'oeuvres"
Peter Grimes for "A Bad Man, Speaking Poorly"
Yuemin He for "Betty Chang and Her Birds"
Jennifer Hunter for "Cling"
Lori Huth for "El Corazón"
Nahal Jamir for "You Who Have Eyes"
Irene Keliher for "SPN"
Aram Kim for "Heun-jeok"
Sonya Larson for "Honeymoon"
Joan Michelson for "The Body of A Man"
Shana Myara for "Remainders"
Elizabeth Newlon for "Trap"
Nicole Pearce for "Falling From Trees"
Carmen Petaccio for "Rebecca"
Magdalen Powers for "Hook and Eye"
Rachel Schwalbe for "Eckerd"
Jeanne Shoemaker for "You Are There"
Ann Tsao for "Wind Dried"
Lucy Warner for "When All Is Said and Done"