GLIMMER TRAIN'S
FICTION OPEN

DECEMBER 2008

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Cary Groner for "Elaborate Preparations for Departure"

2nd-place winner:

Aaron Carmichael for "Driver Yu's Penance"

3rd-place winner:

Aaron Cutler for "Fifteen Shots"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Elaine Barnard for "Snow"
Ethan Castelo for "Until It Happens to You"
Nathan Garneau for "Un Buen Dia"
William Gaythwaite for "The Disaster Book"
Jennifer Gooch Hummer for "Lucky U"
E.B. Johnson for "Turn It Up"
Rachel Kadish for "Come on Zion Put Your Hands Together"
Kate Kasten for "Grammar Lessons"
Anjali Khosla Mullany for "The Circumference of the Earth"
Nicholas Kocz for "You Okay?"
Agustin Maes for "Newborn"
Brennan McDowell for "The Day the World Turned Upside-Down"
Sarah Miller for "Life-Sized Jesus"
Brenda Paro for "Legacy"
Alyssa Perkins for "Soft Teeth"
Kyle Reed for "Tracing an Hour"
Willa Schmidt for "Floating Island"
Randolph Thomas for "Expecting Ruth"
Jessica Treadway for "Please Come Back to Me"
Sarah Ulicny for "You Are Here"
Mary Winsor for "It Goes Without Saying"
Sarah Zhang for "Grocery Shopping"