Glimmer Train Stories, #93 - Softcover

Lee Montgomery; Sarah Shun-lien Bynum; Jon Chopan; Daniel Torday; Caitlin Horrocks; Michael Conforti; J.P. Lacrampe; Bob Shacochis; Philip Tate; Peter Sipe; Sean Bernard; Analisa Raya-Flores; Courtney Sender; David H. Lynn; Mojie Crigler; Judy Doenges

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595530428 ISBN 13: 9781595530424

Publisher: Glimmer Train Press, Inc., 2015

Synopsis

Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.

Lee Montgomery
Window
Spring was sneaky that year Angela ran away.

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
The Bears
All of my senses opened in recognition. The mixed scent of newsprint and butter, the muted ticking of the modern cuckoo clock on the wall, the enamel tea kettle gleaming atop the immense stove, the marmalade still sharp in my mouth: home.

Jon Chopan
Slaughter
That was the year it snowed in Baghdad and people thought it was a sign of peace.

Daniel Torday
A Dispatch from Mt. Moriah
My parents weren't the anachronisms that the Sonnensteins were, but they were products of the fifties: men went to work and women worked out the socializing.

Caitlin Horrocks
Norwegian for Troll
After stopping to eat Coney dogs at a place recommended on the internet, they ate more at the Coney shop next door, both founded by immigrant Greek brothers with rival hot dog dynasties.

Michael Conforti
Tunnels
I learned pretty young they always chased the guy who ran, so I did what I could to avoid being that guy.

J.P. Lacrampe
Caretaking
In his chair Jorma sleeps, his eyelids fluttering, and I wonder why his accident didn't hold our family together, like they sometimes do in movies.

Peter Sipe
Civil Affairs
Rwandan soldiers, noted for their relative discipline and skill, were everywhere. Kigali was, for an African city, a pretty orderly place.

Bob Shacochis
Interview by Kevin Rabalais
A lot of us had been arrested in anti-war demonstrations at our schools. Then those kids all got summer intern jobs at the C.I.A.

Sean Bernard
Museum of Me
Mid-life crisis is my dad's dumb theory. I think she's mad, mad that I'm my own woman, mad that boys like me, mad that I don't give her attention the way I used to.

Analisa Raya-Flores
The Boys Like Bones
The thing about anaphylaxis is it isn't just physiological. The allergy attacks your logic, your sense of reality. My favorite on the list of symptoms is a "sense of impending doom."

Courtney Sender
Even Angels Are Astonished
Lydia is on the phone, crying, which doesn't concern Ari; Lydia is a crier like him, unlike her mother. There's a strength in the ability to cry, he believes and has taught her.

David H. Lynn
Divergence
For months he'd been predicting that promotion would alter nothing, that he wouldn't feel in any way transformed once it had been granted.

Mojie Crigler
Completely Everything Completely Burned
Holes in the ground, and double-holes, where the trees--roots, trunk, bark, branches, leaves, rings, sap, snake nests, unhatched bird eggs--completely burned away.

Judy Doenges
Promised Land
There was neither meadow nor glen, but there was a huge lawn and a cluster of ranch houses, a lot of exhausted wealthy people from the local towns of St. Charles and Geneva, and me.

Philip Tate
Reading Hemingway
"Maybe it will last," she said. "We should make it last."

About this title

About the Author:

Lee Montgomery is the author of The Things Between Us, Whose World Is This?, and Searching for Emily: Illustrated. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Glimmer Train, Antioch Review, Iowa Review, and Tin House.

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of two novels, Ms. Hempel Chronicles and Madeleine Is Sleeping. Her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, the New Yorker, Tin House, and the Best American Short Stories. She teaches at Otis College of Art and Design.

Jon Chopan is the author of the novel Pulled From the River. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Post Road, Hobart, Hotel Amerika, and Redivider. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Daniel Torday is the author of a novel, The Last Flight of Poxl West, and a novella, The Sensualist. His stories and essays have appeared in Esquire, Glimmer Train Stories, Harper Perennial's Fifty-Two Stories, Harvard Review, the New York Times, and the Kenyon Review. He is an editor at the Kenyon Review, and serves as Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College.

Caitlin Horrocks is author of the story collection This Is Not Your City. Her stories appear in the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, Pushcart Prize XXXV. She is the fiction editor of the Kenyon Review, and teaches at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Michael Conforti lives and works in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, where he also grew up. This is his first story accepted for publication.

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 lectures at Santa Clara University and San Jose State.

Peter Sipe's fiction has appeared in Guernica and the Green Hills Literary Lantern. He teaches at a public middle school in Boston.

Bob Shacochis's most recent novel, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, was published in 2013. He has published numerous works of fiction and travel writing.

Sean Bernard teaches creative writing at the University of La Verne. His work has appeared in twenty-plus journals. His collection Desert sonorous was published in spring 2015, and his debut novel, Studies in the Hereafter, is forthcoming.

Analisa Raya-Flores, like most of her stories, is short. Her work has appeared online in Out of Nothing and in print in Monkeybicycle. She writes about dying, mostly, but for now she is alive in Los Angeles.

Courtney Sender's fiction appears or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Tin House online, Esquire, Five Chapters, Michigan Quarterly Review, and the Carolina Quarterly.

David H. Lynn has lived, taught, edited, and written in Gambier, Ohio, for 25 years. His most recent book is Year of Fire, a story collection.

Mojie Crigler's short work has been published in the Los Angeles Review, Brooklyn Rail, Drunken Boat, and The Rumpus, and anthologized in Tahoe Blues. Her memoir, Get Me Through Tomorrow, is forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press.

Judy Doenges' short fiction collection, What She Left Me, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Doenges is also the author of a novel, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World. Her work has been published in the Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, and Green Mountains Review. She teaches at Colorado State University.

Philip Tate lives with his family in Cortland. His stories have appeared in a number of literary magazines, including Black Warrior Review, the Iowa Review, Indiana Review, the Adirondack Review, Narrative Magazine, and Hayden's Ferry Review.

About this edition

• Publisher: Glimmer Train Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1595530428
• ISBN 13: 9781595530424
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Susan Burmeister-Brown, Linda B. Swanson-Davies
• Illustrator: Jane Zwinger