"Survey Our Literary Landscape From the Open Window of Glimmer Train What drives you to write? How does a particular piece of writing come to exist? In Inspiration and Discipline, the second volume in our Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction series, more than one hundred accomplished authors set aside talk of character and scene in order to address the more private and elusive aspects of their writing lives. In excerpts from in ..."
"... Ann Pancake ' Peter Parsons • Roy Parvin • Karenmary Penn • Susan Perabo •
Dawn Karima Pettigrew • Constance Pierce •William Pierce • Steven Polansky '
John Prendergast 'Jessica Printz • Melissa Pritchard • E. Annie Proulx ' Eric
Puchner • Kevin Rabalais 'Jonathan Raban • George Rabasa • Margo Rabb •
Mark Rader • Paul Rawlins 'Yelizaveta P. Renfro • Nancy Reisman • Linda
Reynolds • Kurt Rheinheimer • Anne Rice • Michelle Richmon ..."
"Gorgeous short stories by established and emerging fiction writers. This issue includes the winners of Glimmer Train's 2001 Fiction Open and Very Short Fiction Award."
"Beautifully written, emotionally affecting, literary short stories by established and emerging writers."
Mother Knows(Original ed.) 24 Tales of Motherhood by Susan Burmeister-Brown Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2004 by Washington Square Press Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-7434-8878-5, ISBN: 0-7434-8878-4
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers. Excerpts:E. A. Durden Mr. Dabydeen He will buy the goat himself, to curry for dinner he will walk the two miles this morning to Western Beef, where he will see every Hindu woman from Guyana, all there to buy goat. Xhenet Aliu You Say Tomato Shalom meant hello, goodbye, and peace. I used to wonder how people knew which meaning someone actually intended when they said it, but Sue ..."
"Literary short stories! Here's a taste of this issue: Kim Brooks The Shelter The air was hot, but he could not tell if the heat emanated down from the sky or up from the earth. He stepped over a dead man who was wearing a fine wool jacket, holding onto its lapels as if it might do him some good. Where had he gotten a jacket like that? Scott Alan Anderson Saints Alive A bleached-blond woman in a sequined sweatshirt appeared at the door. ..."
"Glimmer Train presents literary short stories by award-winning and upcoming writers. Here are some excerpts: Cheri Johnson Guralnick Whenever one of those little wolves came in on the same pitch as another, the first wolf lifted or dropped its voice to make it sound as if the pack were growing all the time. Susan Perabo Why They Run the Way They Do Sweetie, Tommy says miserably. And right then it becomes apparent that one of us is goi ..."
"Great new literary short stories by established and emerging writers. Unusual focus on the writer as well as on the writing. Perfect for writers who love to read."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:Natalie Sypolt My Brothers and Me "Ooh, Aunt Mari. Is that your fancy boyfriend?" Andrea said. "He's not so fancy. You guys are brats." Manuel Muñoz The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. "You've been there a lot? When did you cross over?" "I was born here," I tell her in English. Then I say it again to her in Spanish, then I let her stay silent for a moment so she can ..."
"Great new literary short fiction. Eight stories by emerging and well established writers. One interview with Allen Morris Jones, acclaimed author of Last Year's River."