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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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Enemy of All Fascists ✊@kevinbrennan520Oct 21
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

2 track album

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Enemy of All Fascists ✊@kevinbrennan520Oct 16
Someone had to do it ... might as well be me. 😏
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Enemy of All Fascists ✊@kevinbrennan520Oct 12
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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Enemy of All Fascists ✊@kevinbrennan520Oct 9
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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Enemy of All Fascists ✊@kevinbrennan520Sep 24
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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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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Enemy of All Fascists ✊@kevinbrennan520Aug 24
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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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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Enemy of All Fascists ✊@kevinbrennan520Aug 19
I'm resisting in subtle but satisfying ways. #portlandfrog #sethtoadtodd #resistance
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Mike Walker
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Dry, short and fun. By Honni van Rijswijk in @offbeatlit "2. The house is in Mosman and it has a First Nations name, engraved on a brass plate beside the door. When guests ask what it means, Saskia says it means ‘peaceful waters’. It does not mean ‘peaceful waters’. I looked it up at the library at Spit Junction. It means ‘place of many stingrays’, which is closer to the truth of the house." thedisappointedhousewife.com…

Instructions for the Next Girl ~ fiction by Honni van Rijswijk

1. They will tell you at the interview that you are part of the family. You are not part of the family. You occupy a position somewhere between the Miele and the Dyson, which is not the worst place…

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Enemy of All Fascists ✊@kevinbrennan520Aug 17
Top of my irritant list this week: Shrinkflation. 🤬 kevinbrennanbooks.wordpress.…

Monday miscellany

~Shrinkflation. My toothpaste now comes in tubes of only 2.7 ounces but costs the same as the 3.4 ounce tube months ago. My favorite taco chips—Calidad—are down to bags of 10.5 ounces. I’m just gla…

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Christina M Rau 🖊️🧘‍♀️The Yoga Poet@ChristinaMRauAug 15
With much gratitude to The Disappointed Housewife & kudos to fellow nominees—Best of the Net 2027 may become a reality! Please support The Disappointed Housewife by reading & sharing (& donating if you can). It’s a gem of a journal! #bestofthenet #poetrycommunity @offbeatlit
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Enemy of All Fascists ✊@kevinbrennan520Aug 10
It’s Watergate season so it’s time to buy my novel Three for a Girl! amazon.com/Three-Girl-Kevin-…

Three for a Girl

LeeAnn Heartney, seventeen and desperate to get away from her dysfunctional family in the summer of 1973, cooks up a plan. Her mother, Arlene, has rented out the top floor of their quirky, ramshackle...

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Enemy of All Fascists ✊@kevinbrennan520Aug 10
I just learned that Jean Paul Sartre used to talk like Donald Duck and I’ll never be the same. 🤯
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Ev Datsyk@evdatsykAug 5
Every week I read a piece that will stick with me and I will admire it deeply and I will linger in awe of it for a few days straight and this week this is that piece
The Disappointed Housewife-SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN@offbeatlitAug 5
A terrific and slyly subversive story for you today! Instructions for the Next Girl by Honni van Rijswijk thedisappointedhousewife.com… #fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity #readingcommunity

Instructions for the Next Girl ~ fiction by Honni van Rijswijk

1. They will tell you at the interview that you are part of the family. You are not part of the family. You occupy a position somewhere between the Miele and the Dyson, which is not the worst place…

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Enemy of All Fascists ✊@kevinbrennan520Jul 31
A date with Big Foot? That dreamy beast? Who wouldn't jump at the chance? The new Caucasionals single is coming soon: "Mystery Date."
🤖 Made with AI
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Enemy of All Fascists ✊@kevinbrennan520Jul 28
Gotta say, I wouldn't mind owning one of these babies.
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Duotrope@DuotropeJul 21
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Literary Narrative Nonfiction feat. @literarymama @WTRlitmag @theoffingmag @offbeatlit @offassignment et al. duotrope.com/search/smart/no…
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Enemy of All Fascists ✊@kevinbrennan520Jul 11
Now that I look a little closer, ALL my novels are available for $2.99 #Kindle edition. Skim through the samples. There's something for everybody. 😃 amazon.com/stores/Kevin-Bren… #readingcommunity #fiction #novels #literaryfiction
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Chrissy Stegman@pimpledroseJul 8
Really excited to have my latest poem at The Disappointed Housewife! Many thanks to Kevin for his fine editing/suggestions and for letting me geek out with the form on this one. Custom-made mimeograph poems, who knew? I pulled out enough of my hair for it though and worth it.
The Disappointed Housewife-SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN@offbeatlitJul 8
We have an extraordinary piece today, #poetry in the form of a poignant school assignment by @pimpledrose ~ Chrissy Stegman. #mustread thedisappointedhousewife.com…

How to Measure a Dog’s Loneliness Across Time ~ assignment by Chrissy Stegman

    Chrissy Stegman is from Baltimore, Maryland. Her work has recently appeared in or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, MER, Michigan Quarterly Review, ONE ART, Rattle, River Heron Revie…

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