"An anthology of new short fiction by award-winning and emerging authors, this intimate collection celebrates writing and honors the writer. The editors-two sisters from Oregon-choose stories that are beautifully written, readable, and emotionally affecting. Each collection is also visually satisfying with handsome cover art and story illustrations, and unusual author profiles. Excerpts can be found at glimmertrain.com, but please ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:Gregory J. Wolos Boy Strangling Goose But the terrifying, breathtaking span of those spread wings had stopped Reilly dead--he couldn't even raise his cane against the wild thing's attack. Andra Nicolescu The Dead Romanians have this weird thing about the dead, you see. Until the twenty-first century, we kept them in our living rooms. We couldn't let them go. Who wants t ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:Ingrid HillPavilionA tent maker has just completed a job for the army, the construction of several officers' tents for field maneuvers. He is carrying brown canvas, a color just a little too rich, a little too beautiful, for the army. But dye lots are irregular. What can one do? Jennifer Anne MosesDuty FreeHe remembered a time when he was maybe eleven or twelve when he' ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Hasanthika SirisenaThird-Country NationalAnura's new home was a tent. It housed twelve other TCNs: four from Sri Lanka, three from Nepal, one from Nigeria, three from India, one from Bangladesh. Carrie BrownBombVera and Christy's mother were childhood chums. Their mothers had been friends before them, and there was some way in which Christy's mother had been indebted as a girl ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts: John S. Walker Among the Least of These She was the kind that would hang on, who had the faith of a mustard seed, but brimmed with a severe hope. His father, the pastor of a congregation of Swedish Presbyterians, had spent hours at her bedside when they believed the fever was finally going to take her. Shimon Tanaka The Suit He had seen much of America--it was all an a ..."
"... 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 ..."
"... Manuel Mufioz • Karen Munro • Kent Nelson • Thisbe Nissen • Sigrid Nunez • N
.Nye • Ron Nyren 'Joyce Carol Oates 'Tim O'Brien 'Vana O'Brien • Mary O'Dell •
Chris Offutt 'Jennifer Oh • Laura Oliver • Felicia Olivera 'Thomas O'Malley •
Stewart O'Nan • Elizabeth Oness • Karen Outen • Mary Overton • Patricia Page •
Ann Pancake • Peter Parsons • Roy Parvin • Karenmary Penn • Susan Perabo •
Dawn Karima Pettigrew • Constance Pierce • S ..."
"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."
"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."
"... JeffBecker 'Janet Belding • Sallie Bingham • Knsten Birchett « Melanie Bishop • James Carlos Blake • Corinne Demas Bliss ... Kuffel • Anatoly Kurchatkin • Victoria Lancelotta • Jennifer Levasseur • Doug Lawson • Don Lee • Peter Lefcourt • Jon ... R. Kevin Maler • George Manner • Jana Martin • Lee Martin • Alice Mattison • Jane McCafferty • Judith McClain • Cammie ... Laura Oliver • Felicia Ohvera • Stewart O'Nan • Elizabet ..."
"Glimmer Train, Winter 1998, Issue 25: Stories156 pp. Glimmer Train is an American literary journal founded in 1990 by Linda-Swanson Davies and her sister, Susan Burmeister-Brown, in Portland, Oregon. It is published quarterly, accepting works primarily from emerging writers. Stories published in Glimmer Train have been listed as notables in The Best American Short Stories, as well as appearing in recent editions of the Pushcart Prize, a ..."
"Winter 1997 Issue 21 Stories by Cyril Jones-Kellett, Doug Lawson, Nancy Reisman, Joan Wickersham, Kristen Birchett, Kurt Mc Ginnis Brown, George Clark"
"... Britney Gress Tamara Moan COPY EDITOR & PROOFREADER Scott Allie
TYPESETTING & LAYOUT Heidi Weitz Siegel COVER ILLUSTRATOR Jane
Zwinger STORY ILLUSTRATOR Jon Leon PUBLISHED QUARTERLY in spring,
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"^0v^2^>si-^^v^^^v^2^^s^^^N^^^^^) M5^sS»x^s^^s^_^->s2u^^-3v_9 Lucy Honig
Lucy Honig's short fiction has been in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards (1 992)
and Best American Short Stories (1988), and in the Georgia Review, Witness, ..."