GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Corey Flintoff for "Early Stages"

2nd-place winner:

Irene Doukas Behrman for "Permission"

3rd-place winner:

Itoro Udofia for "To The Children Growing Up in the Aftermath of Their Parents' War"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Jeanne Althouse for "Big Lies"
Latifa Ayad for "Eid-al Adha"
Arno Bohlmeijer for "Frankness"
Chris Connolly for "The Speed of Light and How It Cannot Help Us"
Georgie Devereux for "Walls"
Jonathan Garcia for "And Abigail"
Amina Gautier for "Love Me Through a Hurricane"
Tara Heckathorn for "Odd but True"
Steven Heighton for "Instructions for the Drowning"
Michele Herman for "They Are Kind"
Crystal Ignatowski for "The Fire on Esplanade Street"
Sarah Leamy for "Clean Up on Aisle Twenty Three"
G. D. McFetridge for "The Hour of Not Quite Rain"
Sabrina Napolitano for "These Girls"
Josh Norman for "To My Future Wife"
Emily Pegg for "How to Skin an Apple"
Jennifer Perrine for "A Searching and Fearless Moral Inventory"
Alyssa Proujansky for "Painless"
Charlie Stephens for "It's Just Too Late for That"
Julie Stewart for "Baptism"
Daniel Uncapher for "Funny Things"
Clay Venetis for "What Didn't Die in Conejo Valley"