Magazine
Ruth Bavetta: “Litany”
David A. Goodrum: “Keeping Things No One Else Wants”
Candice M. Kelsey: “pop rocks”
Lindsay McLeod: “Once I Believed But”
Jim Murdoch: “Beliefs (Three Kinds)”
Sreeja Naskar: “If This Turns Out To Be Another Love Song”
Kenneth Pobo: “What An Exhausting Night!
Robin Wright: “Expiration Date”
Barbara Berg: “To change the shape of wood, you must understand its properties”
Susan Cossette: “The Agreement”
Ken Gierke: “Dulcet Tones Do Not Lessen the Impact”
Bill Griffin: “Spoonfuls”
Rocío Iglesias McKenzie: “Immigrant’s Lullaby”
Daniel Edward Moore: “When All Else Fails”
Alan Perry: “Lift”
Donald Sellitti: “Why do souls just seem to linger?”
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal: “Do Not Be Afraid”
Rose Mary Boehm: “Dead machines”
Aarik Danielsen: “South 190th Street, Omaha”
Jade Kleiner: “Blood Draw at MGH”
Jeremy Nathan Marks: “Cattywampus”
Samuel Prestridge: “Drab Horses (America, 1958)”
Anna Saunders: “One whistle to go after”
Savannah Williams: “Cell”
Sarah Carleton: “Point of Reference”
Nada Faris: “The Way Forward”
Cal Freeman: “Essay On Whistler”
John Grey: “Relationships, Your Argument”
Kristen Keckler: “Woman and Sewing Machine”
Garth Pavell: “Cascade Loop”
Jason Ryberg: “Garden of Guilt”
Dudley Stone: “Bad Roommates”
R. A. Allen: “Bluing”
James Benger: “pep talk”
Bonnie Demerjian: “A Lesson Not Taught in Supermarket School”
Adele Evershed: “loopy”
Hedy Habra: “Whatever Remains of What We Once Knew So Well?”
Madison Woodle: “Worms”
Robin Wright: “Rough Waters”
Ruth Bavetta: “My Father’s Shirts”
Jacob Butlett: “Feeding Time at the Zoo”
John Compton: “the musical of the bell jar”
A.M. Hayden: “Ghost Leg”
Joshua Lillie: “What Becomes A Tumbleweed”
Joseph Mills: “Retinue”
J.R. Solonche: “The Ceiling”
Alicia Wright: “She doesn’t wish me dead”
Sam Culotta: “A Winter Coat”
Paul Ilechko: “Memories of a Memory”
Madison Isbell: “corpus christi, early march”
Lindsay McLeod: “Sleeping Dogs”
Andrew Mulvania: “Self Portrait As The Grasshopper Trapped Inside Van Gogh’s Olive Trees”
Abner Oakes: “Floating Teeth”
Sterling Warner: “Slap Shot”
Susan Cossette: “Five Things I Will Do in Aegina”
Tony DeGenaro: “Flight Path”
John Grey: “On a Funeral Pyre”
Jeremy Jusek: “Prescriptions Written in Calligraphy”
Cindy Rinne: “Ghost Turkey”
Patricia Russo: “The Dead Time Traveler”
As It Ought To Be is proud to announce our nominees for the 2026 Best of the Net Anthology.
Laurel Benjamin: “Motel Room Without a Night Light”
Jane-Rebecca Cannarella: “Quilted Rainbows”
Karina Castrillo: “I never wanted you to be like us”
Felicia Clark: “Chrome Cheers”
Paul Ilechko: “A Life in Art”
Jimmy Pappas: “The Ineffable”
Sarah Angstadt: “Counterproductive Side Effects”
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal: “Hearing Aid”
Sue Blaustein: “Serving Orders at Brother’s Foods”
John Brantingham: “The Greening of Creatures”
J.D. Isip: “Triceratops”
Paul Jones: “Two Flamingoes at Pea Island Reserve”
Samuel Prestridge: “My Father, Hailing from Ignorant Hill, Texas…”
Diana Rosen: “NEWS ITEM: Westside Pavilion to be UCLA Biomedical Research Center”
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