GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

JULY 2013

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Kimberly Bunker for "Number 41"

2nd-place winner:

Analisa Raya-Flores for "The Boys Like Bones"

3rd-place winner:

Natasha Friedman for "The Holy Spirit Descends Over Kansas"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Alex Bernstein for "Brownie Mix"
Taylor Cates for "Down"
Joanne Chin for "Sure Sign"
George Choundas for "Of Satisfaction and the Lying Sun"
Lucy Durneen for "The Path of Least Resistance"
Sharon Ellis for "He and She"
Miriam Fried for "Personal Space"
Pete Fromm for "Grief"
Meghan Gilliss for "A Bush in Harbor View"
Jim Gish for "The Cross of Choice"
Sativa January for "Grace"
Dan Kellum for "These Things Take Time"
Jesse Nee-Vogelman for "Crisis"
Charles Phillips for "Ted's Drinking Age"
Julia Prendergast for "Sundowning"
Tracey Ruby for "Rails"
leelah saachi for "19 Short Stories from a Life"
Christopher Schahfer for "An Impasse"
Denise Tolan for "God Dumps Doug"
Luke Whisnant for "Stones"
Jeremy Wilson for "Welcome to Gorilla City"
Sacha V. Wright for "Rebuilding"
Geoff Wyss for "The Dissimulator"