Glimmer Train Stories, #78 - Softcover

Stephanie Soileau; David Rothman; Adam Theron-Lee Rensch; Lynn Ahrens; Gina Ochsner; Alyson Foster; D M Gordon; Yuvi Zalkow; Cary Holladay; Christopher Coake; Andrew Scott (interviewer)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595530274 ISBN 13: 9781595530271

Publisher: Glimmer Train Press, Inc., 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephanie Soileau is currently a lecturer at Stanford University. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House, Gulf Coast, StoryQuarterly, Nimrod International Journal, three volumes of New Stories from the South, and Best of the South, Volume II: From 10 Years of New Stories from the South.

David Rothman has taught ESL academic writing for the City University of New York for over ten years and has had a number of short stories published in such journals as the Nassau Review. Most recently, an excerpt from a recently completed novel, Plan B, was published in a journal in East Hampton, New York. He makes his home in Queens, New York, where he is currently hard at work developing "Guided by Voices" into a full-length novel.

Adam Theron-Lee Rensch received his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. He divides his time between Ohio and New York City.

Lynn Ahrens's short stories and essays have appeared in Calyx, the Kenyon Review, Narrative Magazine, and Tallgrass, and have been nominated for Best American Essays and the Pushcart Anthology. As a lyricist, she won the Tony Award for the Broadway musical Ragtime, and received two Academy Award nominations for the animated movie musical Anastasia. She is a mainstay songwriter for the renowned ABC-TV series Schoolhouse Rock.

Gina Ochsner is the author of two short-story collections, People I Wanted to Be and The Necessary Grace to Fall, both of which won the Oregon Book Award. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New Yorker, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Glimmer Train, and many others. Her latest book is The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight, which was long-listed for the Orange Prize, and which was published in February 2010.

Alyson Foster recently received her MFA from George Mason University, where she was a Completion Fellow. Her fiction has appeared in the Iowa Review and the Kenyon Review. She presently lives and writes in Washington, D.C.

D M Gordon's poems have appeared in Nimrod, Northwest Review, and Confrontation. The Massachusetts Review accepted her short story "Escape Velocity," and she's been awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in fiction. Fourth World, a limited-edition letterpress chapbook, is currently being published by Adastra Press.

Christopher Coake is the author of a short-story collection, We're in Trouble. The stories previously appeared in journals such as Five Points, Epoch, Gettysburg Review, and the Southern Review. In 2007 Granta named him to their list of Best Young American NovelistsCoake, a native of Indiana, lives in Reno, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Nevada. He lives with his wife, Stephanie Lauer.

Yuvi Zalkow's work has appeared in Bewildering Stories, Carve Magazine, Narrative Magazine, Rosebud, and others. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his fabulous wife, sushi-loving stepson, and cabinet-obsessed toddler. Yuvi recently received an MFA from Antioch University and is at work on one novel while trying to trick someone into representing his other novel.

Cary Holladay is the author of five volumes of fiction, most recently A Fight in the Doctor's Office, which won the Miami UP Novella Contest. Her work appears in recent issues of New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, Ecotone, and Tin House. Her awards include an NEA fellowship and an O. Henry Prize. A native of Virginia, Cary is married to the writer John Bensko. They teach in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Memphis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Glimmer Train Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1595530274
• ISBN 13: 9781595530271
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210
• Editor: Susan Burmeister-Brown, Linda B. Swanson-Davies
• Illustrator: Jane Zwinger