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 […]

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 […]