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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…
The Disappointed Housewife

The Disappointed Housewife

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Food for thought, #writers. Is publication the be-all and end-all? #writingcommunity #fiction #poetry Link below.
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I have new post up at my #Substack asking the ageless question, Is publication the whole gig for writers? Lately I'm saying, No it isn't. 🤯 discepati.substack.com/p/is-… #writingcommunity #fiction #poetry #novels
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🤣Forgot about this one from @offbeatlit. Shakespeare reimagined for 2day. thedisappointedhousewife.com…
A Shakespeare sonnet edited for modern Americans ~ poetry by Wim Leflore

A Shakespeare sonnet edited for modern Americans ~ poetry by Wim Leflore

Sonnet XX* A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted, Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion; You look hot, girl. A woman’s gentle heart, but not acquainted With shiftin…

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This one's a #mustread, everybody. If you didn't get a chance to pop in yesterday, come on by now and read about Janelle Blinsky's love life ... and parasites. thedisappointedhousewife.com…
Janelle Blinsky’s Science Report on Parasites ~ found document by Frank Reilly

Janelle Blinsky’s Science Report on Parasites ~ found document by Frank Reilly

Author’s note: Handwritten voicing created by writer Shahrzad Warkentin, whose work can be read at Flash Fiction Magazine and Blood+Honey. Frank’s work can be found in The Baltimore Review, Z…

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Couple of fun indie numbers for ya. No Autotune in sight! Drop in on The Caucasionals at Bandcamp and have a listen. thecaucasionals.bandcamp.com… #bedroompop #fyimusic #guitar #songwriting
Mystery Date (single), by The Caucasionals

Mystery Date (single), by The Caucasionals

2 track album

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This girl's working some things out via her Bio 101 paper on parasites. thedisappointedhousewife.com… #fiction #writingcommunity
Janelle Blinsky’s Science Report on Parasites ~ found document by Frank Reilly

Janelle Blinsky’s Science Report on Parasites ~ found document by Frank Reilly

Author’s note: Handwritten voicing created by writer Shahrzad Warkentin, whose work can be read at Flash Fiction Magazine and Blood+Honey. Frank’s work can be found in The Baltimore Review, Z…

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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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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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