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Glimmer Train presents literary short stories by award-winning and upcoming writers. Here are some excerpts: Cheri Johnson Guralnick Whenever one of those little wolves came in on the same pitch as another, the first wolf lifted or dropped its voice to make it sound as if the pack were growing all the time. Susan Perabo Why They Run the Way They Do Sweetie, Tommy says miserably. And right then it becomes apparent that one of us is going to start crying. I m not sure which of us, but either way it s something to be thwarted at all costs. James Sepsey Not When a Day Can Be This Good You re thirty-seven. I need you to be a man. Like your father, your grandfather, your great-grandfather. All men. God, you d think it d run in the family at some point. D.B.C. Pierre Interview by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais I never quite believe writers who say they re up at seven a.m. to write a thousand words. They have a cup of tea, and then write two thousand words after lunch. I can t see that happening to me. Antonya Nelson Falsetto He had never been an ordinary boy. He was so thin that people grew angry when he wouldn t eat. Deborah Tarnoff Crazy Ukraine Girl All over the world people are preoccupied with building memorials to help them remember. But the smart ones are busy forgetting. Susan Petrone This Is How It Happened I don t think any of them are in actual denial: they understand that I am dying, they re just getting used to the idea in incremental fashion. Elissa Minor Rust In My Mother s Trailer My girlfriend s son, Charlie, is watching a boy about his age resuscitate a frog on tonight s news. To be fair, the boy is only pretending to resuscitate the frog, a re-enactment of the actual event, which happened earlier in the week. Christiana Langenberg Half of What I Know The theory is the dog committed suicide. My father tells me this when I get home from school