The Intriguing Metal Sculptures of Madeleine Lord     A ten foot giraffe. A ballerina on tiptoe. A gyrating rocker. The Angel Gabriel and an Artist in the Time of Covid. These are but a f […]

Emily as She Spends Three Consecutive Days in Licking County by Darren C. Demaree Allow me to be a reflection of all of her tastes, including that core piece of her that makes fun of me for not screaming the lyrics of a […]

Still Life by Mark Liebenow On some days, the world stops moving and I feel I’m sitting on a wooden chair inside a still life painting. I look at the objects around me in my l […]

Stone Circles by Moray McGowan Moray McGowan is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2026 Poetry Contest The waxwings that stripped our cherry tree’s last crop dropped gu […]

Playmaker by Richard H. Kenney, Jr. Richard Kenney, Jr. has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2026 Essay/Memoir Contest “He had a talent for remembering phone numbers an […]

Paying Our Respects by Connie Clark Going to visit a dead body has seemed bizarre to me since my first such occasion when I was five or six years old. Like any good Southern family, we […]

An Artist’s Progress: A Glimpse Into The Art of Lincoln Perry by Deborah McLeod   Lincoln Perry launched Magna Cum Laude from Columbia University’s Department of Art in 1971. Not essentially recognizable to those of us who no […]

An Interview of Sharon Hostler by Sharon Harrigan Scroll to the end of the interview for excerpt from Making Rounds. In her new memoir, Sharon Hostler writes candidly about her life, both […]

Nine Feet Apart by David I. Hughes David Hughes is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2026 Poetry Contest This is the silence with a fault line. Not a void, but a […]

All Out in Beijing by Marcia Yudkin The shuffling of Zhao Yihe, my boss, down the office corridor came to a shocked halt when he saw me. With his hair wet, his feet in plastic slippers […]

I tell my wife we are all drawn to sadness by Casey Killingsworth Nothing changes after the year we spend our Sunday mornings offering tea to the homeless in the shadow of the Mission, you know, […]

Spring Gables Wolf Attack by Andrew Friedman I took the cheeseburger out of the bag and started eating it while I walked to my car. Harold was in the parking lot. They were beating his ass again. […]

2026 Flash Fiction Contest Winners by Erika Raskin and Mary Esselman We were privileged again to read a vast expanse of small worlds through our flash fiction contest. And once again, the different structures and […]

Prep work by Katherine Gotthardt The last thing I drank was clear. The number of times I’ve had to repeat this reproduces, every anesthesiologist preparing for vomit, I guess. M […]

Looking for Definition by Fred Wilbur   If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. —Charles Darwin,Voyage of the Be […]

fitting places into a suitcase by Hibbah Haddam how do i fit a city into a suitcase and how do i fit the feeling of waking with the sunrise or not sleeping until the stars blur how do i fit […]

The Vibrant Paintings of Mahmoud Elmardi Mahmoud Elmardi, a Sudanese visual artist and novelist currently based in Cairo, explores how physical and spiritual landscapes overlap, his aim to […]

Knowing and Oh My, 2 poems by Julia Falcinelli Last night the dreams poured in through the window. The plants, brought in for the first threat of freeze, let them rest and take stock on […]

Flare, Strobe, Pulse by Jeffrey Kane Christine Wilcox is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight’s 2026 Essay/Memoir Contest She slips into Mass during the processional, as if she’s part of […]

Beating a Death Sentence by Bill Glose Imagine being told at your annual physical that you have a cancerous spot on your right lung. Then, in a follow-up that you have a year left to live. […]