GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION
JULY/AUGUST 2018
Honorable Mentions, listed in alphabetical order:
Sara Allen for "Make All That We Will Be Great Again"
Nancy Antle for "Here I Am"
Heather Aruffo for "My Mother Was a Globalist"
John-Paul Bernbach for "Roo"
Amy Bernstein for "How to Fix a Lamp"
Mary-Beth Blanchard for "Damp"
Burton Bradley for "The Fireman's Son"
Marcia Bronstein for "She Read"
Katherine Burkman for "Enough Pigs"
Rebecca Schmidt Castka for "At Night in Chile"
Michael Chitwood for "Rip"
Sonia Christensen for "Makeup"
Nicholas Claro for "A Few Things Before Coffee"
Robert Clinton for "Brownie and Brownie"
Linda Collins for "Lavender"
Mame Cudd for "Into a Neat Line"
Jesus De La Torre for "How the Earth Parts"
Pamela Diamond for "Blue Pages"
Jeanette Edelstein for "We All Fall Down"
Susan Emshwiller for "Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down"
Christen Enos for "Takeoffs and Landings"
Linda Rui Feng for "Instructions for the Other Self"
Nancy Graham Holm for "An African Tale"
Kristen Havens for "Just Enough Time to Think I'm Falling"
Mureall Hebert for "3.168e+8 Footsteps"
Janet Holloway for "Unthinkable Leavings"
Michelle Hope for "Postpartum"
Kimberley Idol for "Monsoon"
Bridie Jackson for "Inventory"
Lucy Jones for "The Small Print"
Marc Kaufman for "Bodies Up Ahead"
Doug Kiklowicz for "I'm Going to Help You"
Rachel King for "A Deal"
Clark Knowles for "Are They Coming?"
Daniel Lamphear for "The Bodies of Brown People"
Nathan Long for "Tree of Heaven"
Michael Malpass for "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"
Ed Maples for "The Green Flame"
Gregory Mattingly for "If You Think So, You Don't Know"
Tyler McAndrew for "You Have to Talk to Mary Anne"
Nancy McAatavey for "Sunday Morning with Papa"
Cate McGowan for "Weird with a Fire"
Cynthia McVay for "Helium"
Alice Mercier for "In This House"
Maggie Montague for "Pirates in the Sky"
Sandra Morris for "The Hearing"
James Mullane for "The Third Rail"
Yoram Naslavsky for "Desert"
Shawn Nocher for "Tuesday Nights"
Sharon O'Connell for "So Goes the Word"
Helen Orr for "Life as We Know It"
Frank Ortega for "Waiting on the Bourbon Street Balcony While She Dresses"
Julianne Paholski Crowl for "My Fears Rise to the Surface"
Benjamin Reed for "Clownfish"
Robert Ripperger for "Between the White and the Yellow"
Sari Rosenblatt for "The Last Woman"
Zohra Saed for "Aqua Net Days"
Jennifer Solheim for "The Two-Body Problem"
Emily Stack for "Our Commute"
Richard Stickann for "No Correct Response"
Vicki Syal for "Needles"
Alida Thacher for "Planetary Influences"
Tanya Ward for "Push/Pull"