Glimmer Train Stories, #99 - Softcover

A. Kumarasamy; M.K. Varnau; T. Crown; A. Jaros; C. Bundy; G. Houck; K. Gale; A. Djanikian; M.L. Chai; J. Bensink; B. Aurora; C. Luchette; M. Sumpter; E. Porter; S. Polansky; D. Long; J. Walton; D. Naimon

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9781595530486: Glimmer Train Stories, #99

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ISBN 10: 1595530487 ISBN 13: 9781595530486

Publisher: Glimmer Train Press, Inc., 2017

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Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.

Excerpts:

Akil Kumarasamy
Brown Smurf
My brother had weak lungs and swam poorly, but he wanted to one day swim across the English Channel. The notion struck him after he watched a documentary on Florence May Chadwick.

Jo Walton
Interview by David Naimon
Science fiction is not about rocket ships whiz-bang! It's about what these things do to us, the us who are taking the trains, the us who are taking the rocket trips.

Mary Kate Varnau
Supernova
I've figured out that if you don't ask permission, if you just go ahead and do, there's a moment of confusion to capitalize on.

Trevor Crown
Late-Period Ruiz
Feeling the plastic bag of an oxygen mask brush limply down his forehead, Dampier recoiled and stood into the aisle, steadying himself with the seat backs on either side of him.

Alex Jaros
The Southwest Chief
He had held the bucket, spoon-fed soup, posted bail. He had given rides that odd, unsung toll on a junkie's parents.

Christopher Bundy
80,000,000
Theo tried to let the hurt feelings go and played chase with the satellite channels, finding upcoming biographies on twentieth century world leaders: FDR, Churchill, Stalin.

Gabriel Houck
You or a Loved One
Our routine is to miss each other, leave messages, and then listen to them on speakerphone while brushing our teeth or pulling whiskers or sorting the week's vitamins into pill holders.

Kate Gale
Australian Thieves
It was summer in Sydney and the weather was good, so lots of crowds, which meant plenty of money busking.

Ariel Djanikian
Summerwalk Circle
A last defense. Like the children of 1945 Dresden pulling the blankets over their heads.

May-lee Chai
Shouting Means I Love You
It was his final act of defiance against the encroachment of age. He'd had the heart surgery, the stent, the radiation for his prostate.

John Bensink
Throwing Out the Vizio Box
I bought the thing during lunch, and then went back to NuTekMetal Designs and they fired me after twenty-nine years: "Sales are down."

Bipin Aurora
The Matrimonial Ads
People are alone, they are afraid. They are looking for a companion. Is that such a bad thing?

Claire Luchette
Moult
Skin cells want out. In a year we lose more than a pound of them.

Matt Sumpter
Off Hours
Well, Mr. Benevolence. It's been two months, and I'm afraid the report is generally unfavorable.

Edward Porter
Storm Dogs
I swabbed everything in the apartment with alcohol and they got infections anyway. All the fluid ran out of them, they dwindled, went silent, and left me.

Steven Polansky
Obsequies
"You don't remember me?" "I don't think so," he said. "Maybe I do." "Or Howard?" she said. "Are you Howard and Vicki?" "Yes we are," she said, delighted.

David Long
Skull
It's the now-distant summer you sublet that rathole on Grosvenor Avenue, a time when your life still could go many ways.

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About the Author:

Akil Kumarasamy's stories have appeared in the Boston Review, Guernica, and the Massachusetts Review. Her interlinked short story collection and novel are forthcoming with Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Welsh-Canadian writer Jo Walton is the author of twelve novels, three poetry collections, and a book of essays. Since then she has released What Makes This Book So Great: Re-reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Mary Kate Varnau's first published story appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of Redivider.

Trevor Crown is an MFA candidate at the University of Florida.This is his first publication outside of the university system.

Alex Jaros's work can be found in Bird's Thumb, Goreyesque, Epic, and among varied zines littered across the Midwest. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

Christopher Bundy is the author of Baby, You're a Rich Man. His fiction and essays have appeared in River Teeth, Atlanta Magazine, Glimmer Train, Puerto del Sol, DIAGRAM, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. He is a founding editor of the journal New South and teaches writing and literature at Savannah College of Art & Design-Atlanta.

Gabriel Houck's fiction has appeared in Western Humanities Review, Grist, Cimarron Review, PANK, The Pinch, Fourteen Hills, and Mid-American Review.

Dr. Kate Gale is managing editor of Red Hen Press and editor of the Los Angeles Review. She is author of ten books of poetry and fiction, including The Goldilocks Zone and Echo Light.

Ariel Djanikian's novel The Office of Mercy was published by Viking in 2013. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review Daily and The Millions.

May-lee Chai is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including the APALA Award-winning novel Tiger Girl. Her memoir, Hapa Girl, was a 2008 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book.

John Bensink lives in Pittsburgh and has written for magazines, newspapers, and television movies of the week and pilots. He is currently writing stories set in the Pittsburgh region that deal with characters one or two generations down the road from when heavy industry ruled the area.

A collection of Bipin Aurora's stories, Notes of a Mediocre Man: Stories of India and America, is forthcoming from Guernica Editions (Canada). Stories have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, Nimrod International Journal, Witness, Chattahoochee Review, Western Humanities Review, Puerto del Sol, The Common, Southern Humanities Review, Carolina Quarterly, and South Dakota Review.

Claire Luchette is from Chicago. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and Indiana Review.

Matt Sumpter's poems have appeared in the New Yorker, New Republic, and Best New Poets 2014. He is the Lead Narrative Designer of the immersive running app Marchquest: Ascension.

Edward Porter's short fiction has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Hudson Review, Colorado Review, Barrelhouse, Best New American Voices, and elsewhere. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he currently teaches creative writing as a Jones Lecturer.

Steven Polansky taught at Princeton, St. Olaf College, Macalester, and the University of Minnesota. His short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Glimmer Train, Best American Stories, New England Review, and Minnesota Monthly. His novel The Bradbury Report was published in 2010.

David Long has published stories in the New Yorker, GQ, Granta, Glimmer Train, and many anthologies, including the O. Henry and Pushcart Prize volumes. His novels include The Falling Boy (1997) and The Inhabited World (2006).

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