Tag Archives: Glimmer Train

Obviously the idea becomes a story (unless the story just happens to happen), and the handling of it is dependent upon skill and technique.  In Kate Kasten’s Home Fires, the concept is laden with potential:  In third person pov, the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A beautifully written story by Julie Rose, Pinhead tells in the first person pov of a father’s love for his estranged son, and his frustrated attempts to show his feeling while being stymied by the words to say it.  But … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Deja vu all over again. (that, from Yogi Berra, I believe) By Kevin Canty, the short story Sleeping Beauty features Andrew, a bachelor, holding a dinner party for two married couples who are all old college friends.  There is that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It is very hard for me to critique one of the particular stories in this issue because for one thing, the timing is bad–just got one of my best stories ever rejected by Glimmertrain today; the story I’m commenting upon … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Rafael’s father started to die in March.  By summer, it was nearly complete.  (p. 99) That’s the opening of Daniel Alarcon’s A Strong Dead Man, and the story that follows is very simple–a boy’s (Rafael’s) father is dying and his … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Finished Confrontations (a very good issue that was, too) and moved onto this Glimmertrain.  I’m a third of the way through and have come upon a real winner–of the Very Short Fiction Award.  Now I’m usually woefully lost as to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Finished this issue; of the last five stories, three are first person pov, two are in third.  The stories:  A man in his early sixties plans to leave his wife who has advanced Alzheimers and take off with a younger … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Eight stories read out of thirteen.  Four first person pov, four third.  A man getting over the death of his wife; a middle-aged woman anxious to make somebody aware of what she did as a kid; a man with marital … Continue reading → Continue reading →

All set to complain again; after three good stories, I thought I’d found a stinker.  And, to find out that To A Stranger by Daniel Villasenor was the top prizewinner of their Fiction Open made me doubly frustrated (as a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Pressured by the lack of space on my hearth, I decided to try to play catchup once more with the lit journals and so selected the earliest Glimmer Train, that being (blush) Spring 2004.  Making my mind up beforehand to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Oh, I know.  Don’t believe anything I say; I haven’t yet turned away from the Glimmertrains since there were about a dozen of them to go through.  But I’m into the idea of mixed genres and fiction together with non-fiction … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I cannot leave a book unfinished, unless it’s really bad.  I have my textbooks, which are compilations of classic and contemporary works including poetry, safely in their place in line upon my hearth.  Because there are good stories in them.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

"Lists" by Mika Tanner is a story about a couple undergoing a divorce, and the wife’s visit back to their apartment to go through their material possessions to equitably dispose of them.  It is very well written, first person pov … Continue reading → Continue reading →