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Your Impossible Voice 2025 Best of the Net Nominees

We are proud to nominate these extraordinary pieces from issues 29 and 30.

Fiction

Ellipse, D.C. by Denis Tricoche

Take Care by Laura Zapico

Nonfiction

Zeppole (aka Awama) by Khalil AbuSharekh

About the About by Mary Burger

Poetry

i really love the little things that go unnoticed by Philip Jason

The Desert Inn by Betsy Martin

I am writing the dream by Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, translated by Domnica Radulescu

How to Lose Your Fear of Death by Rebecca Macijeski

A Flight by Adam Day

College by Jeffrey Kingman

Art

Deep Dive by Ayshia Müezzin

In the Heart of Love by Nicole F. Kimball

About Best of the Net

The Best of the Net is an awards-based anthology designed to grant a platform to a diverse and growing collection of writers and publishers who are building an online literary landscape that seeks to break free of traditional publishing. This space has been created to bring greater respect to the continually expanding world of exceptional digital publishing.

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Our Pushcart Nominations for 2018

Your Impossible Voice is thrilled to announce this year’s nominations for the Pushcart Prize."The Rapist’s Dog" by Sara Kachelman (Your Impossible Voice #16, Winter 2018)"In the Garden of Earthly Delights," by Luisa A. Igloria (Your Impossible Voice #16, Winter...
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Contributor News: Lampblack by Thaddeus Rutowski in Carousel Magazine

I saw that my father had bought a kerosene lamp — I guessed he would use it when our electricity went out. I knew that he liked old-fashioned things and might find its antique shape and dim glow comforting. Moreover, he had no income — my mother worked at a hospital job — so he would appreciate the savings in electricity. He burned the lamp in the kitchen at night while he drank. I imagined the lamp was still glowing when he fell asleep at the table.

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