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

We always love when this time of year rolls around because we get to review all the terrific work we’ve published in the last twelve months. And, as always, it’s exceedingly difficult to filter all this great material down to six poems, two stories, and two essays. Obviously it boils down to a subjective je ne sais quoi, but the bottom line is that everything we nominate is worthy of extraordinary honors.

We wish all our nominees luck in the competition and hope you’ll take a moment to click on the links below and read them.

Thank you for supporting The Disappointed Housewife.

FICTION

How to Be Happy for Two ~ Max Paradise

Saint Joan ~ Angela James

POETRY

I am in a field/or maybe a cemetery/ ~ Victoria Nordlund

or, The Modern Prometheus ~ Jennifer Jantzen

Torch Song ~ Ronnie Sirmans

The Lament of Curley’s Wife ~ Ruth Lexton

demise ~ Ken Kakareka

My Daddy’s Accordion ~ Tom Busillo

ESSAYS

Animālium Domesticōrum: A Reverse Chronology ~ Jeanann Verlee

Experiential Ecotone: Hashimoto’s Disease & Gestational Diabetes ~ Court Harler