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Stories, essays, and poems that stretch genre definitions, break rules, challenge readers, and bend their brains. Edited by novelist @kevinbrennan520

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Fiction, poetry, essays & more, with an idiosyncratic flair. Visit The Disappointed Housewife. thedisappointedhousewife.com #Writers, see our Submission Guidelines here: thedisappointedhousewife.com…

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Enemy of All Fascists ✊@kevinbrennan520Oct 16
Someone had to do it ... might as well be me. 😏
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Starting to see a lot of pseudonyms in submissions at @offbeatlit. What's up with that? kevinbrennanbooks.wordpress.…

Who are you? Pen names in the 21st century

Another thing I’ve noticed as editor of The Disappointed Housewife (along with writers using microfiction as a form of social media) is that a lot of people are writing under pseudonyms these days.…

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Small presses abound, but how to find the right one for you? kevinbrennanbooks.wordpress.… #writingcommunity #publishing

Unicorn hunting: Looking for a good small publisher

Another week, another t-shirt design! I mentioned before that I’m shopping around a little collection of flash and micro pieces. It’s called “Dream Sequence,” and all of the 50 tiny tales were gene…

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An ode to Furio from The Sopranos ... or at least to his shirts. thedisappointedhousewife.com…

the beautiful silk shirts of famed tv mobster furio giunta ~ prose poem by Masha Kurbatova

On The Sopranos, my favorite character is Furio. I like him for his silk shirts, his collared shirts, his tiger-striped shirts, his floral-patterned shirts, his wide and open v-neck shirts where Je…

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We've got Jenny's number, everyone, and it ain't 867-5309. 😏 Read all about her here: thedisappointedhousewife.com…

Jenny Agog ~ fiction by Brent Joseph Johnson

He takes the chair and spins it around and sits facing the backrest and says what’s up and Jenny loses her fucking mind. He walks into the bar and Jenny’s standing alone on the dancefloor. She’s we…

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Everybody loves Jenny. New #fiction this morning by Brent Joseph Johnson. thedisappointedhousewife.com…

Jenny Agog ~ fiction by Brent Joseph Johnson

He takes the chair and spins it around and sits facing the backrest and says what’s up and Jenny loses her fucking mind. He walks into the bar and Jenny’s standing alone on the dancefloor. She’s we…

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If the first page of a submission sounds like AI, and Pangram says it's 100% AI, should we bother reading the whole thing? 🤔
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Writers have some choices to make ... kevinbrennanbooks.wordpress.… #AI #ChatGPT #editing #proofreading

Is it okay to use AI to proofread or is that taboo too?

Writers are turning themselves inside out over what to do about AI. Just about everybody agrees that it shouldn’t be used to create stories, poems, novels, or any other kind of creative writing. I …

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Your moment of Zen ... Revisit a good one we published in '24, by the great Guy Biederman. thedisappointedhousewife.com…

Sound of a Train From A Previous Life ~ fiction by Guy Biederman

Sitting on lawn chairs at the edge of the world we eat sandwiches and watch ancient monsoons rip harmlessly across space, tantrums in exile. I sip cold milk. You swig from a flask, screw the cap cl…

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The story thus far ... Check out the new prose poem by @JeffreyHermann! thedisappointedhousewife.com… #poetry #prosepoetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity

The Best I Can Describe It ~ prose poem by Jeffrey Hermann

The Best I Can Describe It First came the single-celled things. Then came the urge to divide. They vibrated, stretched, and became two things. Next came fibers, then worms, etc. Then someone invent…

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Here they are, our 2027 Best Small Fictions nominees! thedisappointedhousewife.com…
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We're so glad zines started posting their Best Small Fictions nominations, since we weren't aware the deadline is 9/30 this year. 😬 Our noms are coming soon!
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We're seeing a lot of great writing lately but nothing that's hitting the bullseye where our mission is concerned. #Writers, be sure to read a few pieces in the zine and review our mission statement to improve your chances of acceptance! thedisappointedhousewife.com…

Mission

idiosyncratic |ˌidēəsiNGˈkradik| adjective relating to idiosyncrasy; peculiar or individual: she emerged as one of the great idiosyncratic talents of the Nineties. I took a long time debating wheth…

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Sarp Sozdinler@sarpsozdinlerSep 2
So, uh, I had this little pome about Cioran & Persephone & Bernini & minor deities & good forehands & negronis & god knows what else out in @offbeatlit last week and, uh, I hope you like it. 🔗👇
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Come take a little trip to the apocalypse on the S.S. Persephone! New #poetry by Sarp Sozdinler. thedisappointedhousewife.com…

Maraschino ~ poetry by Sarp Sozdinler

Maraschino Marco says the pool boy quotes Cioran between laps I’m stirring negronis with menace, an aperitif for the impending apocalypse. Delphine keeps her sunglasses on through the eulogy becaus…

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You think you've got a lot on your plate? Check out this To Do List we published in February! thedisappointedhousewife.com… #poetry #poetrycommunity

To Do List ~ poetry by Kataru Yahya

To Do List Take on the load of the burdened. Picture cutting the baby’s cord with your teeth & cremate the fetus in your eyeballs for the rest of the ultrasound examination. Observe the next wo…

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Come take a little trip to the apocalypse on the S.S. Persephone! New #poetry by Sarp Sozdinler. thedisappointedhousewife.com…

Maraschino ~ poetry by Sarp Sozdinler

Maraschino Marco says the pool boy quotes Cioran between laps I’m stirring negronis with menace, an aperitif for the impending apocalypse. Delphine keeps her sunglasses on through the eulogy becaus…

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Monday motes ... ~Though my mother’s been gone for a while, I still try not to step on cracks. kevinbrennanbooks.wordpress.…

More motes

~Though my mother’s been gone for a while, I still try not to step on cracks. ~Man boobs—a part of life. ~Young people from Sacramento and environs are trashing our local trails with their litter. …

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Wait, did you miss this one? Now's your chance to come over and read "Creek Bed Meditations #24" by @d_c_demaree. The East light can be a tide, but what will it take with it? We return to a fragment every day. thedisappointedhousewife.com…

Creek Bed Meditations #24 ~ poetry by Darren C. Demaree

Creek Bed Meditations #24 Is it so simple as to be if we touch the world the world can no longer exist in the same way? I have to really think to remember we have a natural history as well. The Eas…

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Enemy of All Fascists ✊@kevinbrennan520Aug 22
Looks like I'm going to write the final lines of the novel I've been working on today. What a rush that always is! Wish me luck! #writingcommunity #novels #fiction
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Let's take a look at what postpartum depression feels like. thedisappointedhousewife.com… #fiction #writingcommunity #postpartumdepression

Postpartum Intake Pop Quiz ~ questionnaire by Ellen Kombiyil

Ellen Kombiyil (she/her) is a visual artist and author of two books and two chapbooks, most recently The American Journal of Insanity’s Diagnostic on the Plumbing & Wiring of Females (Visual Po…

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