Glimmer Train Stories, #51

Literature & Fiction

Susan and Linda Davies signed. Burmeister

Short Stories & Anthologies

Glimmer Train Press, Inc.

Emotionally significant literary short stories.

Glimmer Train Stories, #55

Burmeister-Brown, Susan

Swanson-Davies, Linda B.

Literary short stories by established and emerging writers

Glimmer Train Stories, Issue 56 (Fall, 2005)

Sallie Bingham

Abby Frucht

Alice Mattison

gina-ochsner

Matt Bondurant

Lucia Nevai

Jimmy Olsen

George Makana Clark

Oliver Broudy

Allyson Goldin

Katherine Vaz

Interview with Frederick Reiken

Eric Wasserman (interviewer)

Glimmer Train - Winter 2006, Issue 57. Binding: Paperback. Publication Date: 2006.

Glimmer Train Stories, Winter 2006 #57

Randy F. Nelson & Bruce McAllister & Yosef

Literary short stories. A feast of fiction!

Glimmer Train Stories, #58

Mark Sanders

Juan Martinez

Karen Regen-Tuero

Doug Crandell

Mark Wisniewski

Cristina Henriquez

Paula Nangle

Jonathan Wei

Susan Messer

Lesley Dormen

David Kear

R.K. Scher

Evan Kuhlman

Matthew Sharpe

Paul, Michel

siobhan-dowd

Glimmer Train Stories, #60

Michelle Richmond

Belle Boggs

Sean Beaudoin

Eric Weinberger

Katherin Nolte

Mark Sindecuse

Louis Gallo

Stephen Dixon

Evan Shopper

Jennifer Oh

Joan Wickersham

Interview with Lee Martin

First appearance in print of these works. Includes stories by Jake Hawkes, Annie Dawid, Will Allison, Jennifer Tseng, Rachel Klein, Steven Polansky, Winnie Wilhelm, Christie Clancy, Julie Hirsch, and Tim Hurd. Interview with Robert Olen Butler. Each story is preceded by a picture of the author as a child, brief autobiographical comments, and a printed signature. Several authors in each issue also contribute to the comments and photographs found in the "Last Pages" at the end of each issue. A rather idiosyncratic journal, edited by two sisters, but one which consistently publishes excellent fiction. 260 pp. Cover art by Jane Zwinger. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Glimmer Train Stories, #61

Steven Polansky

Will Allison

Jake Hawkes

Annie Dawid

Jennifer Tseng

Rachel Klein

Vinnie Wilhelm

Christi Clancy

Julie Hirsch

Tim Hurd

Interview with Robert Olen Butler

Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:
Aria Beth Sloss Toward a Theory of Blindness The dirt blows in through the windows, leaving a dusting like pollen across my bed; out along the roads, it paints over the baobabs until the wood's just a shape, a mess of red fingers grabbing at the sky.
 Scott Nadelson Aftermath "Whoa! Larry! Whoa!" He fell forward against the seatbelt, and its recoil knocked him back again. "I got it under control," Larry said. "'Whoa.' What am I, a horse?"
 Miriam Novogrodsky Just Enough Food to Remember I have never been around a person as old as Lila. Her life is unraveling, like a scarf somebody spent time knitting. I want to capture it before it's in a heap on the floor, keep the stitches intact, the work not gone to waste.
 Lauren Groff Delicate Edible Birds Fucking Reynaud, handing the city over to the Germans. A real man would stand and fight.
 Will Allison Interview by Andrew Scott I've gotten to the point where I tell myself that I'm not even writing, I'm just sketching, dumping raw material on the page. That helps take the pressure off. In the end, it's really just a big leap of faith, believing that it will all eventually amount to something.
 Stephanie Dickinson A Hole in the Soup That woman kept looking. It was odd how you could hear a head turning your way and feel someone's eyes.
 David Allan Cates Rubber Boy I'd been a child. Then a soldier. Then I sold insurance. Then I went crazy. Then I became a student, a nurse, a husband, a father. Each stage led to the next, but I couldn't remember the bridges.
 Erica Johnson Debeljak Blind Spots Whether you do or whether you don't. Either way there's a risk that something will go wrong or, more alarming still, that something will go right and who knows what the consequences of that might be? Or hah! that nothing will change at all.
 Joshua Canipe Preacher Stories Each snake had its own cage, usually two or three strung out across the backseat, which made the interior of the car smell like musk and cucumbers. It was a sweet scent, but sharp, something they only emitted when attacked. When we got out of the car for the church service, the scent clung to my pants and shirt, my clip-on tie.
 Ed Allen Krankenhaus Europe has a different smell, he remembers from previous non-academic trips. The pollution level is no worse, but here it is softer, with more complexity to its mix of smoke flavors.

Glimmer Train Stories, #70

Ed Allen

Lauren Groff

Stephanie Dicksonson

Joshua Canipe

Miriam Novogrodsky

Scott Nadelson

David Allen Cates

Erica Johnson Debeljak

Aria Beth Sloss

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'd suddenly been seized by the conviction that he was going to die, and soon, too. Horatio PotterSummer HelpHiram wondered if these infestations and the twisting of weather were somehow connected to the newcomers, the sweeping in of unknown people filling the once wide-open spaces with the many things they owned--SUVs and four-door pickups, camper trailers, ATVs, motorbikes, horse trailers, trout boats, canoes--the entirety of leisure retail splendor. Christine SneedTwelve + TwelveSomeone in the alley three stories below my window was calling out to someone else, and what he was saying was not very nice. Maybe he did it because we were all stuck in an ugly, listless March, ice visible everywhere and clinging to our lawns like a dense gray scum. Matthew SalessesThe Grief MinistryPages of grief ministry research were spread out on the floor around me, near Sue Ellen's bed. I was asking God to help me be a better first responder. Noa JonesBrother RonHe was a steady man, meaty but refined, carrying his large frame with delicacy. Fish bones in pudding. Nam LeInterview by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin RabalaisI don't want any of my stories to be a proof of me getting a place right. That's not what the stories are about. But neither do I want to give any well-meaning reader the opportunity to be jolted out of their suspension because I didn't get the place right. Judy TroyCactusOn the third night his symptoms returned; he stopped breathing, and Beverly resuscitated him, which she wouldn't have had she been able to see the remaining eight months of his life. But she hadn't been able to see. Randolph ThomasAccording to FoxfireThe hogs had been nosing the trough, expecting breakfast, when we walked up. My uncle was right behind my father, and the hogs seemed to sense the men were up to no good. Carmiel BanaskyDinner in Diaspora"We didn't light the candles." "We drank wine," Savi laughed. "We didn't say the prayers." "We'll do it next week, Ava. Don't worry." Pamela SuttonTamer of Horses Nothing in Philadelphia is plumb: the sidewalks; the doorjambs; the floors; the windows; the trim; the walls; the ceilings, which go a different way from the roofs; the chimneys; and the corkscrew staircases holding everything together. If you twirl up and down those stairs enough times for enough years you forget where you came from and can't recall where you're going. Charles McCarry Interview by Kevin Rabalais I suppose I'm old enough now to admit this: My fiction is in some ways an attempt to explain my life to myself. I'm not Christopher and Christopher is not me, but we did a lot of the same things.

Glimmer Train Stories, #76

Pamela Sutton

Ingrid Hill

Christine Sneed

Randolph, Thomas

Matthew Salesses

Sara Whyatt

Jennifer Anne Moses

Horatio Potter

Noa jones

Judy Troy

Carmiel Banasky

Jennifer Levasseur (interviewer)

Kevin Rabalais (interviewer)

Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Stephanie Soileau Cheniere Caminada Under one marker, etched with only a year, 1893, were some from almost every clan, Curoles and Terrebonnes and Comeauxs and Ledets the founding families who had settled this ragged fractal of wetland all tossed together in a pit by exhausted survivors who then gathered what little was left and moved on, farther up the bayou, farther from the sea. 
David Rothman Guided by Voices He wondered what these guys who dressed so formally at dawn were all about. But this was how Marina saw the world, always with suspicious eyes. Boris wouldn't take the cynical path. Maybe they were just nice fellows, like so many others he had met in Upstate New York America. 
Adam Theron-Lee Rensch Everything in Its Right Place "I had this dream," he said. "I was on David Letterman, a guest show about widowers and how they coped with the grief of losing their wives," and he kept talking, a smile on his face like he was recalling a pleasant memory. 
Lynn Ahrens Rendition But she had not heard from Khalid in five months, ever since he'd left to visit his cousin Asghar in Toronto. His absence was a shadow that followed her everywhere, dragging at her as she walked, the not-knowing a stone around her neck. 
Gina Ochsner Break Of all the men, Kalle was Avis's favorite. He made her job easier, first rolling to the left of the bed while she tucked the upper- and lower-right corners, then rolling to the other side of the bed so that she could secure the left corners. They repeated this dance for the flat sheet, a series of choreographed moves perfected over fifteen years of practice. 
Alyson Foster Heart Attack Watch The back of the sublet that Maggie and I moved into after our sophomore year faced a road favored by ambulances. 
D M Gordon The Work of Hunters Is Another Thing The folks he grew up with were heading off to Florida, their farms growing houses, their river fields filling with willow. 
Yuvi Zalkow God and Buses "Yes," I say to my wife, "but you converted because of me. You can't leave me and take my religion. Get your own." 
Cary Holladay The Flood Uncle Bern raised his end of the table so plates, food, and cutlery slid off in a long, splattering clatter. Gid tasted cinnamon, then blood, as a dish of pear butter cut his lip. Mourners twisted away from the crashing table. 
Christopher Coake Interview by Andrew Scott Beginning writers have an aversion to specificity they think that if they're going to make a big statement, to write something timeless and universal, they need to be vague.

Glimmer Train Stories, #78

Lynn Ahrens

D M Gordon

Cary Holladay

David, Rothman

Stephanie Soileau

Adam Theron-Lee Rensch

Alyson Foster

Yuvi Zalkow

Christopher Coake

Andrew Scott (interviewer)

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