The Long Goodbye and Solving for X in a Pandemic, 2 poems by Carlene M. Gadapee The Long Goodbye The dishes undone, the laundry undone, the checkbook balance impossible to follow or read. Then, the falls. So many falls. It […]

Remedy for an Excited Amygdala by Billie Hinton On the first cold night since early last spring fog rolls onto the farm like a tide. I wake to a cloud buckling in the arena, around the barn, down […]

Autumn Landscape by Elizabeth Mercurio How do you bear the middle-aged body, all its longing— ……    a body grown round. It doesn’t curve with the same sweetness it did on days […]

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Outside Whole Foods by Eliot Wilson We always seem to get the red light here, just close enough to Whole Foods to see in while the bus kneels to unfold the ramp that allows the […]

Advent by Sharon Ackerman The Christmas story is full of haves and have-nots, those who are empty and those who are full, those who have shelter and those who lack. As with […]

In Memoriam of Henry G. Shirley by Brannon O'Brennan A sky god laments unintended consequences, observing the artery that injects the city with Virginia. Suburban sanguines resigned to short […]

Missive From the Snow Globe by Charlotte Matthews Not sure how we got here. But here is where we are. My next-door neighbor, Sarah, and her little sister Pearl, and me. We were eating cereal at their […]

Like your relationship with Creativity? If not, Julia Cameron can help you change it. by Lisa Cooper Ellison Last Thursday, I attended a gathering of local writing friends where we ate food and gave out lots of hugs, along with cheers of “OMG! I haven’t seen […]

Second Marriage by E. K. Riley     She kept track of what belonged to her and what belonged to him. She felt guilty, but also compelled. The silver coffee spoons were h […]

An Ending by Adam Day                                    after Mark Bibbins Rays burrowing in sand like hearing someone typing an endless suicide note […]

The Art of Susan Egbert     My involvement with art began early. My father was a freelance artist in upstate New York and I started showing pen and ink drawings w […]

Photographer Aaron Farrington When tracked down, Aaron Farrington was on a camping trip in the woods of Grayson Highlands State Park. We met soon afterwards in his basement studio […]

2023 Poetry Contest Winners by Fred Wilbur It is our pleasure to announce the Winners and Honorable Mentions of the annual Streetlight Magazine Poetry Contest. How did we arrive at our […]

A Map Of Her Mind By Benjamin Roque Suddenly Emery stopped walking. He just stood there, a still-life in the afternoon, on a busy sidewalk. The crowd parted around him—one b […]

Considering Volcanoes: What Lies Beneath by Mary Alice Hostetter Mary Alice Hostetter has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Essay/Memoir Contest   There was no real reason for volcanoes and […]

Elegy for a Soldier by Will Hemmer In the pulsing heat, in the black cathedral of war, the amber-tinted silver of infra-red illuminates a man. Nimble in the moment between the […]

The Best Piece of Writing Advice Most Writers Don’t Listen To by Lauren Sapala For most writers, writing is a strong inner calling. It feels like a passion that they can’t ignore, a destiny they must fulfill. And for writers w […]

Bloodroot in March by Gary D. Grossman 1. Regardless of the year, it’s the first flower seen on my daily hikes, pushing through every November’s abandoned duvet of tan and umb […]

The Closet Full of Darlings by Erika Raskin Lots of people have gotten credit for the literary adage advising writers to kill their darlings. In fact it was Arthur […]