GLIMMER TRAIN'S
FICTION OPEN

SUMMER 2005

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Mark Sindecuse for "Bonsai"

2nd-place winner:

Susan Fox for "The Shadow Man"

3rd-place winner:

Deanne Lundin for "What a Man Can Carry"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Beth Alvarado for "Comadres in the Kitchen"
Jacob Appel for "The Other Sister"
Gail Baker for "My Religious Education"
Alethea Black for "That of Which We Cannot Speak"
Lynn Conlee for "Proof"
Frank Cossa for "Nosebleed"
Harriet Goldman for "Everyone Knows"
Corey Haydu for "Glimpses of Blue"
Michael LaPorta for "Fast Dance"
Doug Lawson for "The Dogs of Carova"
Nam Le for "Cartagena, or A False Ocean"
Christopher McGee for "The River of Trinity"
Jimmy Olsen for "Sea Salt"
Megan Palatas for "The Butterfly Field"
Sharon Pomerantz for "The Virgin of Upper Broadway"
Helen Ross for "The Cost of Things"
Karen Sagstetter for "Letters Home"
Debora Seidman for "Berlin"
Isaac Simons for "All Roads Unwound"
Doug Trevor for "Life Above Water"
Jennifer Tseng for "The Burning Tail"
Paula Yoo for "Falling"