GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

SUMMER 2000

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Debra Innocenti for "Acacia"

2nd-place winner:

Mira Bartok for "Water"

3rd-place winner:

Rachel Hall for "Saint Malo, 1939"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Faith Adiele for "Craving"
Ann M. Bauer for "Initiation"
Helen Beecher for "Snake in the House"
Malcolm Berry for "Genesis Regenerate"
Brian Booker for "The Bread Baker: A Nightmare in Thirty-One Bits"
Christopher Castellani for "Games of 1953"
Sarah Durham for "The Park"
Joshua Furst for "Sobieski, Samantha"
Christien Gholson for "Witness"
G. Timothy Gordon for "Friday-Nite Fights"
Jennifer Haigh for "Burying Oldfella"
Jane Hammons for "Los Algodones"
Emma Hardesty for "This Then Was So"
Christopher T. Leland for "In Conclusion"
Keith O'Brien for "Swimming through Darkness"
Anthony Schneider for "An Uninhabited Place"
Stephen Schottenfeld for "Bleeder"
Andrew Shields for "Blue Moon"
John Sumakis for "Da's Boy"
Mary L. Tabor for "The Woman Who Never Cooked"
J. G. Tipton for "The Old Man in the Dell"
Girija Tropp for "The Hibiscus Airport"