Once Upon A Memoir by Trudy Hale I am in an abusive relationship again. This morning was the first time it occurred to me to label it as such. Not a lover or husband, or friend, but […]

Birthday Boys by Will Underland   When he woke it was with awareness that it was his birthday and thus with an ebullience lacking on most other days when waking and rising were […]

Cursed by Tess Matukonis For your birth, metal instruments sing you and your fluorescent halo into being. At your baptism you are pressed by the hands of power into […]

Cristina's Pop Art   Cristina is an artist with an eye to humor, the ironic and social commentary. She started creating art for fun at the age of six, painting […]

Trails by Will Hemmer We walked down this dusty canyon, where the rains have worn gashes in the gray banks like the creases that run from your cheek bones to your jaw […]

Stop Shivering by Avery Roche Avery Roche is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest   Pain. This is a word I am intimately familiar with. In fact, it […]

My Sister's Breakfast by Jonathon Chibuike Ukah Jonathon Chibuike Uka is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Poetry Contest My Sister’s Breakfast The things my sister eats for […]

The Land Where Horses Grow Tired of Running, Hadeel's Story by Olivia Lee Stogner Olivia Lee Stogner is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Poetry Contest Where Horses Grow Tired of Running, Hadeel’s Story Today I went to […]

Mandarinas by Linda Laino The night was so quiet I could almost hear the stars, that place laden with pines. Your eyes hard to read across the air between us, air you […]

In The River of Poetry: Contest Winners Frankly, readers, Sharon and I were flabbergasted and at the same time gratified that Streetlight Magazine received one-hundred and nine entries to […]

Where to Begin Again by Claire Scott I have discarded the gods like leftover tuna sandwiches stacks of them stuffed in the recycling including Odin, Shiva, Baal, Sango and […]

The Shooter by Martha Clarkson Today we drive north for an hour to find the snow geese migration. The geese are in the area for six months, so it shouldn’t be hard. Migration, as i […]

The Photography of Leah Oates and Max St-Jacques This mother and son have more than most in common; Leah Oates and son Maximilien St-Jacques share a passion for photography.Oates’s grandfather was a […]

Goodbye to Love Atop Old Priest Grade by Mary Pacifico Curtis I have a fondness for our imperfect union that started with a swindle – too much money for land and a set of plans that had hung over the place l […]

The Secrets We Kept in Our Condo Association by I. S. Berry It’s hard to know when it started—the hollow feeling when I entered my building. The unease as I unlocked the front door, like I was entering a str […]

God Bless the 800-Calorie Sandwich by Angela Townsend So, here’s the thing about the Meemaw cookbooks. I have no desire to make any of this stuff. But it gives me metaphysical peace to know that s […]

The Emily Dickinson Revery Construction Guide by Robert Harlow Before she invented the ladder to the sky, she first invented the sky to have somewhere to go. Then she pulled the ladder up after […]

Flipping the Switch in Georgia by Gary D. Grossman Did the G-d of the South finally begin perspiring and give that little knob a flick, mid-September or if lucky, August 22nd? Now the wind is an […]

Mimm Patterson Wins Streetlight's 2024 Art Contest Mimm Patterson is the Winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Art Contest Among the submissions that we received for the Streetlight Art Contest, Mimm […]

Candy Apple Smile by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos   Kat’s portrait tilted on Wendy’s dresser festooned with effulgent skyscrapers: birds of paradise and stargazers. A spent cork from a New Year […]