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Dottie and I are happy to announce this year’s Best of the Net nominations.

As usual, we don’t take these decisions lightly, and it’s always difficult to make the granular distinctions between one piece and another when they’re all so good. As I always complain, Best of the Net doesn’t make it any easier by permitting only two fiction nominations. We published a lot of great flash fiction in the last year (click on the Fiction tab in the sidebar to sample). The two pieces we finally landed on are superb but are also great examples of the kind of work we like to see in our in box.

We wish all our nominees luck in the competition and hope they inspire writers everywhere.

Thank you, writers and readers, for supporting The Disappointed Housewife.

 

FICTION

Safety Bucket—Aaron Sandberg

You Never Know Which Artwork Will Stay with You, Becoming Entirely Beloved, Entirely Necessary—Sumitra Singam

 

POETRY

My Mother is a Contestant on The Golden Bachelor—Joanna Theiss

Night Soliloquy—poetry by Mary Paulson

Periodic Thoughts—Christine H. Chen

Sugar Tide—Samantha Moe

another existential morning—Anthony George

Slash for Captain Marvel #15—Glen Armstrong

 

ESSAYS

Expedition—Nancy Bell

The Hoyer Lift—Zary Fekete

 

ART

Mother, Who Had Been Vice President Of Her High School Chinese Social Club—Eliot Li