GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

APRIL 2014

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Julian Zabalbeascoa for "Gernika"

2nd-place winner:

David Abrams for "A Little Bit of Everything"

3rd-place winner:

Meghan Pipe for "Contingencies"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Michael Antoinetti for "How We Are Changed"
Bruce Barrow for "Mint Green"
Charles Booth for "Imitating Animals"
Randall Brown for "Still"
Chase Burke for "Postcards to My Father from My Road Trip with Richard Nixon"
Janna Cohen for "Five Pictures"
Michael Danaher for "Where We Were Going"
Jeremy Forman for "Autumn in New York"
James R. Gapinski for "Migratory Patterns"
Benjamin Landry for "When I Wasn't Sleeping"
Linda Legters for "In the Beginning, Sleep"
Joshua Levy for "Three Words Away"
Paul Martone for "All the Roads in the World"
Julaine Nichols for "Glass"
Cornelia Nixon for "Cold Harbor"
Marianne Porter for "How To Spend the Weekend with Your Parents. 1970."
Michelle Shin for "Please Define"
Margie Skelly for "Standing in the Dark with My Family"
Lynn Steger for "Practicing"
Meg Tuite for "My Silence Has a Beginning and an End"
Jill Widner for "The Empty Houses"
Jake Wolff for "When a Woman Thinks That Her House Is on Fire"