GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

JANUARY 2012

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Brad Beauregard for "What's Kept"

2nd-place winner:

Kim Brooks for "Year's Time"

3rd-place winner:

Weike Wang for "A Flock of Geese Heading East"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Presca Ahn for "Riverside Drive"
Brandon Ayre for "Pajamas"
Jennifer Blackman for "I Wanted You to Sound Different"
Amber Burke for "Jesus Christs Forever"
Joseph Calabrese for "Garden Variety"
Neil Fischer for "Wiles"
Jonathan Hasak for "The Uniform"
William Locke Hauser for "Dinner in the Gulch"
Joshua Howes for "Was"
Shane Kowalski for "The Spontaneous Combustion of Uncle Vince"
Susannah Long for "The Bear Sanctuary"
Carmen Machado for "Down"
Michael Nardone for "Two Kitchens"
Zoey Peterson for "How Long and What a Marvel"
Ana Reyes for "Spin"
Niloo Sarabi for "Things We Don't Talk About"
Cristina Sciarra for "A Vicarious Life"
Tandy Tillinghast for "Hotline"
Sarah Tutt for "Present Tense"
Sarah Van Arsdale for "In Llano Park"
Leah Van Vaerenewyck for "Split"
Paul Vidich for "Lost in New York"