vol. 62

Troldhaugen (Pt. 1)

Joan Frank
Published on May 1, 2025

How they met, no one can reconstruct. Not the fussy particulars, not step by step. We can't handle the past that way anymore.

Circus

Gemini Wahhaj
Published on April 17, 2025

Things were going well for Monirul until his mother-in-law came to Houston

Artifact: Photo the day after my brother’s suicide

Julie A. Cox
Published on April 3, 2025

My parents smile as though / politeness in a disaster / is expected of them

Recent News

RIP: an author, an artist
1 year 1 week 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
2 years 5 months ago

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

Best of the Net Nod Congrats
2 years 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
3 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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