Items related to Glimmer Train Stories, #77
Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.
Excerpts:
Hasanthika Sirisena
Third-Country National
Anura'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 Brown
Bomb
Vera 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 to Vera's family, something to do with money.
Jessi Phillips
The Klein Farm
"We're going to lose the farm," he tells them. "If we don't make up some money fast."
Rolf Yngve
Going After His Brother
Their dad had been on the township's first real planning commission and named these streets when they were nothing but stakes driven into farmland. Mississippi, Nakoma ÄîOrange, Peach; their dad said fruits and rivers never p_ed anybody off.
Jackie Thomas-Kennedy
The Bridge Is Moving
If he had been coming for me, he would have come two years ago, when I asked him to. He would have come with a bishop from a chessboard, because mine is missing one and we loved to play chess. He would have named his sailboat Grace instead of Lucky Penny.
Evan Christopher Burton
Exposure
Ahead beyond the tree-break lay the little borrowed house sitting dark walls against dark windows against dark sky.
Jon Chopan
This Form of Grieving
My father moved into the old syrup factory on East Main Street with a futon and his photography equipment.
Anne de Marcken
Best Western
My mom has left the bathroom light on so that I can see. I can tell she is awake, but I pretend that I have to be very quiet so that she will pretend to be asleep and not say anything to me.
Josh Weil
Malvern Hill
When I was ten, my father caught me playing Civil War in the backyard. I was either blue or gray, depending on if I began my charge from the side where the mulberry tree grew or from the sandbox.
J.P. Lacrampe
Farmers' Market
Beside the bum are two Hefty garbage bags that, based on the smell, are filled with carrion and balsamic vinegar. When he catches me looking at him through the mirror, he smiles. What the hell, I smile back.
Aaron Carmichael
Driver Yu's Penance
The sight of so many pairs of high-heeled shoes stirred in him the hazy, drunken memory of a hair salon he had stumbled into late one night a year earlier. The salon cut hair during the day, but after dark the owner turned on pink lights that could be seen from the street and it doubled as a brothel.
Bret Anthony Johnston
Soldier of Fortune
It was the year the president denied trading arms for hostages in Iran and the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded and Halley's Comet scorched through the sky. It was the year I loved a reckless girl, the year being around my best friend made me lonely.
Travis Holland
Interviewed by Jeremiah Chamberlin
For most of us, much of our lives pass away when we pass away. A writer is the person who has saved it. To me, writing a book or a short story is proof that this life is lived.
Bret Anthony Johnston
Interviewed by Margo Williams
I think that reading and writing are, at their core, acts of empathy. If we were more engaged and practiced in the habit of empathizing, there's no question that we'd be in a more compassionate place.
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About the Author:
Hasanthika Sirisena has published in Narrative Magazine, Epoch, StoryQuarterly, Witness, Best New American Voices, and other publications. Carrie Brown is the author of five novels and a collection of short stories. She teaches at Sweet Briar College.
Jessi Phillips is a recent graduate of Western Michigan University's MFA program, where she was the fiction editor of Third Coast.
Rolf Yngve has published short stories in Eclipse, Quarterly West and Greensboro Review. Work was anthologized in Best American Short Stories, 1979; Sudden Fiction; and Fiction's Many Worlds.
Jackie Thomas-Kennedy has been a finalist for the Indiana Review fiction prize, the Iowa Review Award in fiction, and the L Magazine Literary Upstart contest. In 2006, she was a semifinalist for a writing fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Bret Anthony Johnston is the editor of Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer and the author of the short-story collection Corpus Christi. His fiction appears regularly in numerous magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. He is the Director of Creative Writing at Harvard University.
Evan Christopher Burton is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College. He lives in Manhattan.
Travis Holland grew up in Florida and studied history at Georgia State University. His stories have appeared in The Quarterly, Five Points, Glimmer Train, and Ploughshares. His novel, The Archivist's Story, which is set in Stalinist Russia in 1939, was published in 2007 by Dial Press and has been translated into eleven languages.
Jon Chopan's writing has appeared in Swink, Redivider, Hotel Amerika, and Drunken Boat. His first book, a collection of stories titled Pulled from the River, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2011.
Anne de Marcken is a writer and time-based artist. Her short stories have been featured in Best New American Voices, The Way We Knew It, Hunger Mountain, and on NPR's Selected Shorts.
Josh Weil is the author of The New Valley (Grove, 2009). Weil's short fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Granta, One Story, American Short Fiction, and Narrative; he has written nonfiction for the New York Times, Granta Online, Oxford American, and Poets & Writers.
J.P. Lacrampe's work has been published by McSweeney's, Instant City, KQED's The Writer's Block, and in Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit. He lives in San Francisco and is a lecturer at Saint Mary's College of California.
Aaron Carmichael currently lives in central China and teaches writing at Zhengzhou University.
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- PublisherGlimmer Train Press, Inc.
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1595530266
- ISBN 13 9781595530264
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages232
- EditorSusan Burmeister-Brown, Linda B. Swanson-Davies
- IllustratorJane Zwinger
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