GLIMMER TRAIN'S
VERY SHORT FICTION

JULY/AUGUST 2018

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

Peter Sheehy for "Things Frozen Then"

2nd-place winner:

Ted Mathys for "High Plains"

3rd-place winner:

Cassandra Verhaegen for "California Orange"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Jenessa Abrams for "The Tenses of Grief"
Latifa Ayad for "Making One Hundred"
Alex Belz for "Crash"
Andrew Bode-Lang for "Meat"
Michael Byers for "The Demolition Derby Team of the First Church of the Word of Elvis"
Leonora Desar for "As If from Some Great Distance"
Ellen Ellis for "Noise"
Clifford Evan for "Holy Fare"
Roberta Gore for "Swimming"
Connor Greer for "Bulkheads"
Michael-Patrick Harrington for "All Dogs Die of Cancer"
Tote Hughes for "Of His Mouth"
Felicia Krol for "Worm Moon"
Cian Morey for "The Last Great Franklin Family Dinner"
Mary Morrissy for "Biology Notes"
Mariya Poe for "Feast"
Julia Prendergast for "Bad Hat"
Kyle Schoenfeld for "Three Birds"
Naomi Shuyama for "Phosphene"
Katherine Vaz for "Revenge in the Name of All Owls"
Siamak Vossoughi for "A Sportswriter"
Noelle Wall for "The Hole"