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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 years, 4 months ago
Joshua Number Eight by E. Hume Covey
If you could sit totally still for long enough on the big rock by the sycamore, the catfish would peek out tentatively from the hollow u […] -
Emily Littlewood wrote a new post 2 years, 4 months ago
Interview by J Brooke of Hotel Cuba's author Aaron Hamburger
I first met Aaron Hamburger at a cocktail party during grad school. I was a writing student focusing on nonfiction and poetry and Hamburger was part […] -
Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 2 years, 4 months ago
a cricket's delight by IIma Quereshi
one tree- with its small hands and another with its star-laced fingers brush against the sky the sky that looks like a sea drained of […] -
Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 2 years, 4 months ago
Writers' Joy by Fred Wilbur
Writers or bloggers who write about writing often express the difficulties of practicing the craft in romantic terms of justification. Maybe not […] -
Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 2 years, 4 months ago
Cockatiel not you by Sean Lause
Cockatiel, not you, a yellow and orange assertion. Bright with her own meanings, clatters round the outside of her cage, without […] -
Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 2 years, 4 months ago
The Hibiscus by Amy Boyes
Amy Boyes has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Essay/Memoir Contest The hibiscuses arrived in six-inch grower pots. Packed for […] -
Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 years, 4 months ago
The Cat Goddess of Apartment 15B by Alex Barr
The back of Bill’s neck smells for some reason of peach and is delightfully warm to my lips. He murmurs something I don’t catch but sounds lik […] -
Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 2 years, 4 months ago
The Paintings of Jeannine Regan
Art runs in my family. My great grandfather was an architect in Germany before they immigrated to the U.S. before WWI. His daughter, m […] -
Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 2 years, 4 months ago
Laundry by Charlie Brice
Fat Auntie Ursal with her coffee-breath, baggy pink house dress, and worried rosary beads would haul a basket of linen to the backyard, pick […] -
Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 years, 4 months ago
The Importance Of Interior Design In Writing by Erika Raskin
The way someone curates their personal space conveys who they are. For a writer, that’s hugely important. “Show, don’t tell” is a guiding […] -
Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 2 years, 4 months ago
God by Mel Kenne
God must be, I dare now to say, like a cat, with His / Her / Its impertinence and delays in ordering our lives, loves and ways of being […] -
Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 2 years, 5 months ago
Why I Loved the 8-Track by Karen Weyant
Today, we stream any song we can find, google obscure one-hit wonders, and watch anyone make their own music videos on TikTok, but back before they […] -
Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 2 years, 5 months ago
The Bus Was Late: a Stamford Memory by Jeffrey Coughter
Jeffrey Coughter has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Essay/Memoir Contest On a sunny, breezy late October morning in 1959, I […] -
Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 years, 5 months ago
Waterfall by Jo Riglar
Jo Riglar is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight’s Flash Fiction Contest I reached the waterfall as the rain started. Little vicious drops. A […] -
Trudy wrote a new post 2 years, 5 months ago
Call of the Wild by Trudy Hale
I wanted to write about hunting season here in the rural countryside, the howling packs of dogs, the men and women who sit in muddy trucks on the side […] -
Roselyn Elliott commented on the post, 17 Year Cicada by David B. Prather 2 years, 5 months ago
Wow, such a good poem, the way it carries seamlessly, literally and figuratively all the way through! Thank you.
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Spriggan Radfae commented on the post, Cats by Christine Tucker 2 years, 5 months ago
I’m surprised this hasn’t happened to me… thank goodness we have a generator! And the oxygen tanks? They won’t pick up extras (“No sir, we were told to pick up 5 and drop off 5.”) But in one year, I had to bury […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 2 years, 5 months ago
17 Year Cicada by David B. Prather
—Magicicada septendecim I never thought I could love you, arguing with leaves under midday sun, your body a prune with polymer wi […] -
Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 years, 5 months ago
Sinking by Deborah Prum
I attended a state university that required you to pass a swim test to graduate. I will not mention the name of the institution because I’m a […] -
Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 2 years, 5 months ago
The Bridge of Sighs by Martha Wiseman
Martha Wiseman has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Essay/Memoir Contest My mother sighed. Frequently, variously, […] - Load More
