Magazine
As It Ought To Be is proud to announce our nominees for the 2027 Best of the Net Anthology.
Susan Cossette: “Bad Marguerite”
Dolo Diaz: “Environmental Collapse”
Joseph Geskey: “STEM As Part of a Flower”
Jade Kleiner: “Blood Draw at MGH”
Anna Saunders: “One whistle to go after”
Alicia Wright: “She doesn’t wish me dead”
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”
Sue Blaustein: “A Song for Centipedes”
Felicia Clark: “Chrome Cheers”
john compton: “[we play scrabble—]”
Sam Culotta: “Voices in the Other Room”
Jenna K Funkhouser: “The House at the End of the Road”
Ken Gierke: “After the Rain”
Julia Hatch: “A Thoughtless Moment of Zen”
James Croal Jackson: “Drymouth”
Daniel Edward Moore: “From the Castle of Resentment”
Jimmy Pappas: “The Ineffable”
