GLIMMER TRAIN'S
FICTION OPEN

SUMMER 2004

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Gina Ochsner for "A Cloud for a Carpet"

2nd-place winner:

Sean Beaudoin for "Winter Kills"

3rd-place winner:

Susan Engberg for "Margaret"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Will Allison for "What You Have Left"
Sarah Blackman for "Pray for Rain"
Belle Boggs for "Good News for a Hard Time"
Robin Bradford for "Mothers of America"
Michael Campagnoli for "The Boundless Arc and Other Dreams"
Jeremiah Chamberlin for "Missionaries"
Thomas Cooney for "Eleanor"
Alison Frost for "Days and Nights on Fairfield Road"
Lisa Graley for "Feeding Instructions"
Carol Howell for "Fool at the Feast"
Quang Huynh for "And the Earth Emptied Clean its Heaven"
Mary Koral for "Flag Girl on the Highway"
Karen Kovacik for "My Polish Widower"
Gail Labovitz for "Life Blood"
Christiana Langenberg for "Maybe It's a Wednesday"
Marc Nieson for "The Last Hours of Pompeii"
Sam Ramos for "Everywhere Is in California"
Susan Ring de Rosset for "Cliff Swallows"
Rebecca Rubin for "Bakery"
Margot Singer for "Borderland"
Randolph Thomas for "Now, from the Beginning"
Robert Vivian for "Body at Rest"