"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 ..."
"Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world through young eyes and hearts. Wise beyond their years―or soon to be―Ruthie, Omar, J.J., and the other kids in these stories veer in and out of touching distance to learn hard lessons about trust, love, and mortality. However engaged or aloof, grownups are always nearby. Far-from-perfect emissaries to the ..."
"These stories offer layered, perceptive takes on what home means to us. The people we meet in these stories are often traveling to and from home―thinking about where they have come from, where they are headed, and how that journey will impact their futures. Although the stories approach homecoming and homesickness through varied moods and styles, they all come around to confronting a shared need: a place to call home."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:Robert Schirmer Blackout He stared up toward the blazing sky, following the hawk's weightless flight over a breakfast-cereal billboard and out of sight, leaving Sam again to his life, such as it was. Kathryne Young Roadrunner My grandmother's house floated like a wayward sailboat on an ocean of fine-grained dirt, scrub brush, and yucca trees. Crisp desert mornings, we s ..."
No Lie Like Love(Reprint) Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser. ) by PaulRawlins Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3998-6, ISBN: 0-8203-3998-9
"A shady financier visits his small hometown, a middle-aged divorcE emerges from a life of drastic austerity and self-denial, a sick and dying professor discovers the healing touch of a former student. From the South African veldt to the barren Utah desert, from the green lawns of suburbia to moonlit Pueblo ruins, the people in Paul Rawlins's debut story collection brave the Big Questions about relationships, love, and death, finding mor ..."
"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 ..."
"Following the death of Jesus Christ, the Church he established was rejected and perverted, the ordinances changed, and the priesthood authority was lost. The result of this series of events is known as the Great Apostasy. Claiming uninterrupted authority from Peter, official Christendom does not acknowledge the Great Apostasy. This denial also permits their dismissal of the Restoration. There is, however, general acknowledgement that t ..."
"The contents of this work are built upon the premise that the marquee event in our times--the turning point upon which everything else revolves--is the First Vision, an event that took place near Palmyra, New York, in the early years of the nineteenth century. Testifying of this sacred occurrence, Ezra Taft Benson wrote: This nation is the Lord's base of operations in these latter days. Here the gospel of Jesus Christ was restored. God ..."