Literary short stories by established and emerging writers. Excerpts:
E. A. Durden Mr. Dabydeen He will buy the goat himself, to curry for dinner he will walk the two miles this morning to Western Beef, where he will see every Hindu woman from Guyana, all there to buy goat.
 Xhenet Aliu You Say Tomato Shalom meant hello, goodbye, and peace. I used to wonder how people knew which meaning someone actually intended when they said it, but Sue rolled her eyes when I asked her.
 Ron Savage Baby Mine What people say is this: Blind Margo can predict a future by feeling the bones in your hands.
 Colum McCann Interview by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais I've come to think, to a large extent, that the terms fiction and nonfiction are there for convenience and to reassure ourselves, but I think if we're truly honest about it all, we would say that we are all storytellers. It's a matter of how we tell the story and how the words are placed on the page. 
 Johanna Skibsrud This Will Be Difficult to Explain, and Other Stories He was a small man, the officer. No bigger than my thumb. When I sat with my brother at the top of the stair, I could, with the tip of it, conceal him entirely. I showed my brother. He laughed. Then came the shot. I covered up his ears.
 David Borofka Coincidence "There's nothing here. There's nothing wrong with your hand." Buddy looked, then turned, as though by accident he had dropped his injury and left it behind on the sidewalk.
 Frederick Reiken Shadow I should have told him that she missed her father. Maybe if he had this context. Maybe he would have thought, "I must be helpful to this girl who lost her father." Maybe if I had known how much she missed her father, they would be married today, Beverly and Simon.
 David Koon Four Sisters: Josephine &amp; Dora Laura, Nancy &amp; Mary But her lazy eye, crooked and brown, was looking at the aisle, and for the first time in my life, I wondered what it was she could see if she sees less, or if she sees more.
 Will Boast Diplomats To hesitate is to lose, my own father once said. He wrote it in a letter to me when I was seven, a grand letter full of grand advice, just before he left to go out to Oregon to sell personal computers door to door, back when people still thought you could succeed at such things.
 Alexander Parsons Interview by Andrew Scott I think most beginning writers decide to write without knowing what they're getting into. You're young, you like books, you think: I'll write my own sweet-ass story.
 Thisbe Nissen Home Is Where the Heart Gives Out and We Arouse the Grass "I am from Ukraine," Bogdan enunciated so beautifully it was as though words had a new, higher purpose. "Oh!" She kept nodding, grinning at him, as though she too had been raised in the communist bloc, overwhelmed to meet a comrade.

Glimmer Train Stories, Winter 2009, Issue #69

Johanna Skibsrud

E. A. Durden

Alexander Parsons

Will Boast

Frederick Reiken

Colum, Mccann

David Borofka

Thisbe Nissen

Andrew Scott (interviewer)

Sara Whyatt

Xhenet Aliu

Ron Savage

David Koon

Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais (interviewers)

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Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Joseph Chavez Stowaways Marshall says it was like possibility itself. Life like an old clock, wound up after three years of silence and set ticking once again. "Yes!" Steven says. "Exactly." This is the opening he was looking for.
 Siamak Vossoughi The X-250 Mr. Rezai had melted, like a man falling in love, only in a movie that was too sentimental to be believed. George had never seen him look that way before.
 Melissa R. Sipin Walang Hiya, Brother I can never tell anyone this. You know how it is, with family. The things you can't say, the secrets they hide until the omissions crack the surface, start fractures, evolve into lies.
 Mehdi Tavana Okasi The Hate "I would never have let you become a soldier," my mother said to me in those years, recalling how we'd fled the eight-year war with Iraq.
 Sean Padraic McCarthy Speak to Me She felt him leave, she later says, the energy shooting up through her hand. But now everyone is just shouting goodbye, I love you, we'll miss you. All at once. A family usually quite quiet, reserved, now a chorus of grief. Gone.
 Eugene Cross Miss Me Forever While he waits at the bus stop, Tulsi leafs through the free Bible each student received after class. He can hardly believe how thin the pages are, like the wings of an insect.
 Elizabeth Kadetsky What We Saw Mice, bugs, heat wave, neighbors, mattresses: all since the little earthquake. "The little earthquake," people call it, like it was as benign as a stuffed animal, a creature innocent beside the morning grapefruit.
 Kim Brooks Hialeah "Peach Tree? Very aggressive sounding." "It says here she's a maniac, bred on nothing but cabbages and beets." "A Jewish racehorse. How could you go wrong?"
 Robert Powers Maghreb and the Sea We knew it was time to leave when we realized we'd have to become miners after running out of money. I told you I'd rather drown in the sea than be buried in a cave.
 Gil Filar Here for Life In December the heat blasted and the humidifier rumbled round-the-clock. Melody stayed inside more, overeating kale and quinoa and Hungry Man turkey dinners.
 E.A. Durden The Orange Parka Since the beginning of Prithi's sophomore year, when she began to attend a charter school in another part of Brooklyn, Rakesh has accompanied his daughter to the city bus stop where her route begins.
 Junot Díaz Interview by David Naimon That doesn't mean that I'm not sexist, that I'm not being sexist. The reader has to decide this. But I'm willing to risk the blowback.

Glimmer Train Stories, #91

JUNOT DÍAZ

Joseph Chavez

Melissa R. Sipin

Mehdi Tavana Okasi

Sean Padraic McCarthy

Eugene Cross

Elizabeth Kadetsky

Kim Brooks

Robert Powers

Gil Filar

Simak Vossoughi

David Naimon (interviewer)

Cathal Sheerin

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Literature & Fiction

Siamak Vossoughi

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