GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

JANUARY 2010

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Michael Schiavone for "Wackers"

2nd-place winner:

Jake Wrenn for "The Accidental Marathon"

3rd-place winner:

David Abady for "Big Girl"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

T.M. Batchelder for "Boris"
Jillian Burcar for "Papers in an Aging Cookbook: Notes My Mother Wrote & Kept"
Nina Cheng for "Fortune Cookies"
Gregg Cusick for "Hidden Ball Trick"
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier for "The Projects"
Shoshana Razel Gordon Guedalia for "Wrestling"
Colby Halloran for "Field and Stream"
Kelly Hatton for "After Life"
Patrick Hunt for "End of the Trail"
Leah Kaminsky for "The Secret Society of Carpet Liers"
Dana Kroos for "Pillar Street"
Naira Kuzmich for "How To Date a White Guy"
Ellen Lesser for "Impound"
Fan Li for "Three Miles to Sturgis"
Nathan Long for "The View"
David Ray for "Closure"
Benita Rubio for "Utz"
Thomas Ryan for "Tocino de Cielo"
Alexandra Sadinoff for "Specific Ocean"
Amy Sedivy for "According to the Dogs"
Marja Vitti for "The Puzzle"
Gregory Wolos for "Old Yeller"