vol. 62

Pearl

Kimberly Lawrence Kol
Published on May 2, 2024

My wife and I do not have sex. I just want you to know that up front, that I’m not some scoundrel

NY, NY 2020

Aaron Poochigian
Published on April 18, 2024

It’s fitting now to grieve / over a loss of vigor, / common to pack up and leave / for bleached suburbs and bigger / skies, for a clean elsewhere.

 

Ex Libris

Cassandra Myers
Published on April 4, 2024

As you may or may not know, a city accumulates ghosts the way a ship accumulates barnacles

Recent News

RIP: an author, an artist
1 day 6 hours ago

failbetter is saddened to hear of the untimely passing of one of our most inspiring authors and fb alums, Paul Auster.

2023 Pushcart Nominations
1 year 4 months ago

As always, failbetter is proud to submit our nominations for the annual Pushcart collection

Best of the Net Nod Congrats
1 year 6 months ago


Our congrats go out to Laura Perkins’s whose story Wanted: Girls, 18–25 yrs, 5’7″ & Up was recognized as a fiction finalist for the 2022 Best of The Net Anthology. 

That time of year.... Our 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominees
2 years 5 months ago

We are grateful to the entire fb family whose works graced our pages in 2021, but we are particularly proud to nominate for possible 2022 Pushcart Prize consideration

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