GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

SUMMER 2003

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Jenny Kennedy for "A History of Everything, Including You"

2nd-place winner:

Anne Raustol for "The Bees, Their Rising"

3rd-place winner:

Clark Knowles for "Light"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Sefi Atta for "Toward The End Of The Season"
Kurt Ayau for "Man With a Gun"
Jessica Barksdale Inclan for "Shore"
Marian Beth Case for "West of Here"
Bilal Dardai for "Etch"
Steve Duno for "Birdmen and Teacups Named Florence"
Kimberly Henderson for "When the Streetlights Turn On"
Deborah Kennedy for "The Truth Is"
Jeffrey Larkin for "Esther's vision"
Yiyun Li for "The Notebook"
Nathan Long for "Purses"
Alison Maher for "Four Strong Winds That Blow Lonely"
Cate McGowan for "All the Birds in Shakespeare"
Melissa Moorer for "A Theory of Lightning and Green"
Kevin Munoz for "Snowfall at the Supervalu"
Scott Nunnery for "Windows"
Oren Shafir for "The Ice Man"
Terese Svoboda for "Africa"
David Taylor for "Counterfeit"
Jonathan Wei for "Small Comforts"
Marion Wentzien for "The Woman Who Notices Everything"
Joan Wilking for "Easy"