Glimmer Train Stories, #94 - Softcover

Julian Zabalbeascoa; Stephen Langlois; Shannon F. O'Neill; Paul Crenshaw; Robyn L. Strong; M. Sean Rosenberg; Caro Beth Clark; Melanie Lefkowitz; Geoff Wyss; Jo Lloyd; Stephen Dixon; Douglas W. Milliken; Matt Bell; Benjamin Percy; Jeremiah Chamberlin (interviewer)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595530436 ISBN 13: 9781595530431

Publisher: Glimmer Train Press, Inc., 2015

Synopsis

Literary short stories by established and emerging writers

Julian Zabalbeascoa
Gernika
Near us, a woman held her dead child as though it was only sleeping. Nobody approached her to tell her differently.

Stephen Langlois
Uncle Jerry
At least once a week she called each of her five brothers, relaying various bits of insignificant information from one to the other. My uncles probably dreaded these calls, but for my mother it created the illusion of unity.

Shannon F. O'Neill
The South End
There, she felt like the future could happen. Before she met Edvin, she almost tasted it once, as a part-time telephone operator at a law firm in Beacon Hill. A place where you could wear nylons and men took notice.

Paul Crenshaw
Uniform
Matt Lawson's brother John got shot through the throat in Afghanistan in early September while Matt watched out the windows of his biology class as the first leaves fell.

Robyn L. Strong
Rhomboifungdombobumbla-groofscurrlaliadiscoprulate
I opened one once and the man yelled at me. I opened one again and he yelled at me again. It's a very yelling place here.

M. Sean Rosenberg
Southern Candyland
Carson made the mistake of telling us in advance that Savannah lacked an open container law tennis without the net so by the time we got there we had no conscience whatsoever.

Caro Beth Clark
The Kind I Really Am
He's old and quiet. The city has been threatening to evict him for years, at least as long as Mindalee and I have lived next door. Everyone is trying to get rid of everyone around here.

Melanie Lefkowitz
The Mango
Let me just spend a minute describing this job for you. Let me tell you there were so many roaches in this ice cream store that we had a special button on the register for roach-related refunds.

Geoff Wyss
The Dissimulator
I didn't know whether Boyd was his first name or his last name, and after calling him that for two days, it was too late to ask.

Jo Lloyd
Uganda
They taught me how to tie a tie, how to shave, the importance of thinking big (which they took mostly on hearsay), how to drink a pint, where to take a girl if you happened to have been a teenager in the sixties.

Stephen Dixon
Flowers
We always had Plymouths. "The Jewish Chevrolet," my father called it, though I'm not really sure why.

Douglas W. Milliken
Blue of the World
He does not understand yet that a kind person can be hard sometimes and still not be a mean person.

Matt Bell and Benjamin Percy
Interview by Jeremiah Chamberlin
Percy: "I had a spear I always carried with me." Bell: "This is the manliest origin story of a writer I've ever heard!"

About this title

About the Author:

Julian Zabalbeascoa is currently at work on a collection of linked stories. "Gernika" will be the fifth of these stories to be published. The other four have recently appeared in Ploughshares, Post Road, Shenandoah, and Southern Indiana Review, and another is forthcoming in American Short Fiction.

Stephen Langlois is a writer of the absurd and fantastic. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Necessary Fiction, Weave Magazine, BULL, Burrow Press Review, Gigantic Sequins, Revolver, and Juked.

Shannon F. O'Neill earned an MFA in Fiction at Virginia Commonwealth University and currently is working on a novel. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Asian American Literary Review, Mizna, Style Weekly, and the Detroit Metro Times.

Paul Crenshaw's stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Essays, anthologies by W.W. Norton and Houghton Mifflin, and journals, including Ecotone, North American Review, and Southern Humanities Review. He teaches writing and literature at Elon University. "Uniform" is one of a new collection of stories, all of which contain characters affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Matt Bell is the author of the novel In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods. He is also the author of two previous books, How They Were Found and Cataclysm Baby, and his next novel, Scrapper, will be published in September 2015. His stories have appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Best American Fantasy, Conjunctions, Gulf Coast, and the American Reader.

Benjamin Percy is the author of three novels, The Dead Lands, Red Moon, and The Wilding, as well as two books of short stories, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk. His work has been published in Esquire, GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, the Wall Street Journal, Tin House, McSweeney's, Ploughshares, and the Paris Review.

Robyn L. Strong attends Humboldt State University. This story is her first published work, of which she is very proud.

M. Sean Rosenberg graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA program and is finishing up his first collection of short stories. His work has appeared in matchbook and Noö Journal.

Caro Beth Clark holds an MFA from the University of New Hampshire. This is her first story accepted for publication.

Melanie Lefkowitz is a freelance journalist. Her work has appeared in Newsday, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the New York Post. She has taught journalism at the City University of New York and Columbia University.

Geoff Wyss's book How won the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction. His fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Image, Ecotone, and Tin House, and been reprinted in New Stories from the South and the Bedford Introduction to Literature.

Jo Lloyd's stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Southern Review, Best British Short Stories 2012, and Southwest Review. She has won the Asham Short Story Award, the Willesden Herald International Short Story Prize, and a McGinnis-Ritchie Award.

Stephen Dixon has published fifteen novels and fifteen story collections since 1976, and about six hundred stories. His last story collection was What Is All This? in 2011, and his last novel was His Wife Leaves Him in 2013. "Flowers" will appear in his new interlinked story collection, Late Stories, which he finished on June 16, 2014--Bloomsday--and will be published by Tyrant Books in April 2016.

Douglas W. Milliken is the author of the novel To Sleep as Animals and the codex White Horses. Other work also appears in McSweeney's, Slice, and the Believer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Glimmer Train Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1595530436
• ISBN 13: 9781595530431
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Susan Burmeister-Brown, Linda B. Swanson-Davies
• Illustrator: Jane Zwinger