The Thinly Disguised Autobiography by Miles Fowler By the time I reached my teens, I was taken with the idea of writing a fictionalized autobiography, but as my college roommate, Barry, observed, no […]

Tongues of Fire by Sandra Hopkins Sandra Hopkins is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest   How did my grandpa, Papa Hop, know that it would be […]

Mentor by Jeanne Julian for Alfred Kern,1924-2009                 Search Amazon for his novel,               The Width of Waters, and you get                No Image […]

2024 Flash Fiction Contest by Erika Raskin   Once again, we had the opportunity to read a (virtual) stack of flash fiction pieces that have enlarged our worlds—and we are grateful. As us […]

For Notre Dame by Sian M. Jones An 800-year-old cathedral is burning to the ground. The world is in horror that things, too, can die, though we thought them immune or […]

Tips For Aging Women by Christine McDowell Tucker Let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that you’re considering getting old. We don’t recommend this course of action, of course, because the risks […]

Before the Ambulance and Dandelion, 2 poems by Dennis Cummings Before the Ambulance I saw him collapse on the trail that divides the golf course, then climbs and looks over the valley crowded with […]

Downstairs by Gary Duehr   What’s happening to me? Downstairs I can hear my wife Ann with our two-year-old Isabella, their sounds bubbling up from the kitchen. The […]

The (Very Uncomfortable) Art of Letting Go: When Movers Lose All Your Furniture by Katie Wilkes “Your new life is gonna cost you your old one.” —Margot Berman I forget if it was around the time of a full moon or another supercharged energy p […]

Little Napalm Girl by Jean Mikhail On the black and white TV, we watched silently, as an American soldier fell into a field of static like he was falling fast asleep, tumbling down […]

Writing For A Generation by Joel F. Johnson We write for a target audience. Readers differ in their demographics as well as their literary tastes. When my novel, Never, was published, I began […]

What Horses Say and Stains, 2 poems by Rita Quillen What Horses Say What’s to be made of the field of buttercups, a saffron sea at the bend of the road, with the three h […]

Blindsided by Jeanne Malmgren Jeanne Malmgren is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest   This should be a quick in-and-out, I’m thinking. As we wa […]

Writing Through Autocracy by Karol Lagodzki   The one and only time I put a knife in my pocket heading out to church was on Sunday, December 13, 1981. My mother, a single parent, was […]

A Stone by Debbie Bennett It was a flat grey stone, the kind you found in tourist shops, with pre-set words. What a strange gift from Andrea, I’d thought, and plunked it into m […]

Moonlight by Ronald Stottlemyer This is the light of stillness after everything has been said and thought, after the day has been brought to its knees once more, after the […]

The Sculpted Paintings of Brooke Major   At three, Brooke Major picked up a paint brush and rode her first horse. Her path was set. “My grandfather had riding stables and I fell in lo […]

The Dying Art of Silence? by Fred Wilbur   If ‘silence is golden,’ why do we squander it so foolishly? If you try finding ‘peace and quiet’ in contemporary life, you will be gob-smac […]

Heaven Spot by Mark Belair In a dark subway tunnel between stations, a concave safety niche holds a grotto of graffiti unseen unless you happen to glance out when the […]