GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

JULY 2009

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

J.P. Lacrampe for "Farmers' Market"

2nd-place winner:

Stephanie Reents for "The Indefinite Article Is a Different Story"

3rd-place winner:

James Scoles for "To Cook an Egg Gently"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Dane Bahr for "The First Tree of the New World"
Luba Burtyk for "Family Pets"
Susan Kim Campbell for "Neapolitan"
Hannah Cheng for "It's What I Want"
Kirk Combe for "Ironrite"
Dale Eastman for "Foreclosure"
Melodie Edwards for "The Bird Woman"
Nancy Flanigan for "The Good Samaritan"
Jeanne Friscia for "$848"
Patrick Hunt for "Cows and Neighbors"
Linda Hutsell-Manning for "Miss Purity Flour"
Suzanne John for "What Put the Kibosh on the War"
Sarah Lynn Knowles for "Waitress"
Matthew Landry for "Wallpaper"
Cameron MacKenzie for "Reep's Knee"
Julie Mayhew for "The Pomegranate"
Miranda McLeod for "You Can Teach Me How to Grieve"
Matthew Mercier for "Homemade Chapel"
Don Peteroy for "From One Object to Another"
Paul Vidich for "Perils of Living"
Jenny Zhang for "Adora"
Tony Zito for "The Leaves Are Falling No It's the Sky"