GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

SUMMER 2001

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Daryl Siegel for "Gone Fishing"

2nd-place winner:

Cate McGowan for "Arm, Clean Off"

3rd-place winner:

Nathan Long for "The Last Hot Day of Summer"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Steve Adams for "Usually It's an Injury"
Steve Amick for "Spike the Monkey"
C. B. Anderson for "Darts"
Karl Barnebey for "Hushband"
Erica Berkeley for "Stepmother"
Emily Bloch for "The Velocity of Babies"
Ian Chorao for "Angie's Morning"
Doug Crandell for "The End of Red"
Trish Steinley Davis for "Sins of the Fathers"
Deron Denton for "Nitrous Tightrope"
Robert Eastwood for "The Goat"
Marina Harris for "Ofelia"
Seth Harwood for "this one thing"
Eli Kooris for "City Cop Beat"
Karen Kovacik for "Three Faces from the Weimar Republic, 1923"
John Lee for "Fires"
Rati Mehrotra for "Vishbu and the Hibiscus"
Marilene Phipps for "Life Outside my Own"
Anthony S. Picco for "The Backyard Was Misshapen"
Lusia Slomkowska for "Death in Happy Valley"
Andrew R. Touhy for "L'oeuf Forty"
Russell Valentino for "Seeing Baby Boy"