vol. 62

Rest Rooms

Meg Yardley

Boys’ Bathroom, 1st Floor / The bane of Mr. Anthony’s existence

Visitation

Kaushik Shridharani

The next time I have you, after your trip, I will bring you here—to the heart of the Middleboro Mall

The Cure

Scott Nadelson

On August 4, 1915, a Wednesday evening in the middle of a week-long engagement in Portland, Oregon, the anarchist Emma Goldman delivered a curiously somber address

Recent News

8 months 3 weeks ago

failbetter is saddened to hear of the untimely passing of one of our most inspiring authors and fb alums, Paul Auster.

2 years 1 month ago

As always, failbetter is proud to submit our nominations for the annual Pushcart collection

2 years 2 months ago


Our congrats go out to Laura Perkins’s whose story Wanted: Girls, 18–25 yrs, 5’7″ & Up was recognized as a fiction finalist for the 2022 Best of The Net Anthology. 

3 years 1 month ago

We are grateful to the entire fb family whose works graced our pages in 2021, but we are particularly proud to nominate for possible 2022 Pushcart Prize consideration