GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

WINTER 2002/2003

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

N. Nye for "Victor's Bird"

2nd-place winner:

Susan Messer for "September Song"

3rd-place winner:

Charlotte Forbes for "A Cow in the Rain"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Marilyn Abildskov for "Sugar"
Dalia Azim for "The Apartment"
Ned Bachus for "Ray"
Derald Breneman for "New Route"
Susan K. Im Campbell for "A Fish Tale"
Greg Downs for "Indoor Plumbing"
Jeff Ivie for "Decontamination: post-family exposure"
Allison Johnson for "The Winter Season"
Carol-Lynn Marrazzo for "Wonders End"
Michelle Martinez for "Figs"
Joni Mayhan for "The Circle of the Moon"
John McNally for "Red's"
Obayemi Onafuwa for "Quarantine"
Danielle Rado for "The Flood"
David Rowell for "Bent"
Joseph Souza for "No Two Flaherty's Are Alike"
Gregory Spatz for "The Relative Mutability of Distances"
Jeff Stayton for "Chisanbop"
Ginger Strand for "All I Can Think Of"
Anne Walsh for "Joe"
Joan Wilking for "Three Little Blackbirds"
Dimitry Yakoushkin for "A Farmer's Burial"