GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

SUMMER 2002

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Karen Kovacik for "Madrigals for a Bauhaus Baby"

2nd-place winner:

Bilal Dardai for "The Empty Bowl"

3rd-place winner:

George Fahey for "Rumble in the Suburbs"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Anne Bingham for "Dependence Day"
Chris Evans for "Colic"
Robert Ferrer for "Precession"
Charlotte Forbes for "Flight"
Paul Gilberry for "Your Umbrella"
Richard Griffiths for "Dragonfly"
Ellen Karatzaferis for "Funny Stuff"
Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis for "Wishwoman"
Suki Litchfield for "Teeth"
Sean Lovelace for "Meteorite"
Joyce Miller for "Returning"
Elizabeth Moser for "Can I Do Anything For You"
Michael Northrop for "Try Whistling This"
Marian Palaia for "Passengers to the Moon"
Marcia Peck for "The Flavor of Borscht"
Gaurav Shah for "A Ray of Moonlight"
Sufjan Stevens for "All the Nonsense of Suffering"
Anna Tambour for "The Ocean in Kansas"
Jeanette Topar for "The Clawfoot Bathtub"
Susan Tribbia for "Breathing Records, I - VIII"
Eric VonDohlen for "Bargains"
Claudia Zuluaga for "Okeechobee"