Dream House by Wendy Fontaine Wendy Fontaine is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight’s 2023 Essay/Memoir Contest An itchy palm means you’re going to come into some money. T […]

Michael Powers: Honorable Mention in Streetlight's 2023 Art Contest     Streetlight: When did you become interested in art? Michael Powers: I have had an interest in artist expression from a very early a […]

Five economic terms you should know and The ring of Gyges, 2 poems by Casey Killingsworth Five economic terms you should know Scarcity. The bar where I am drinking–because I have money–has more beer than it could give away but it won […]

Air is Wind is Song by Fred Wilbur As a child, when did you first become aware of air? It was probably as its manifestation in the mysterious force of wind. Indeed, we all have […]

Special Delivery by Daniel Pié The Widow Lowery would occasionally sleep with Mr. Oshiro. It was, in small-town parlance, a well-kept secret. Certainly, nothing in Mr. […]

2023 Art Contest Winner Shows at Chroma Gallery Until August 26     Emma Knight’s imaginary gardens and landscapes picture magical worlds of color and exotic plants in mysterious, lush settings. They evo […]

Still Life with Black Pants and Peppers by Christine Tucker Streetlight Voices: Short Fiction & Memoir · Still Life with Black Pants and Peppers by Christine Tucker   Podcast: “Still Life with Black P […]

Desire by Molly McKaughan I sit at the bar at Café Un, Deux, Trois on West 43rd and cross my legs and swivel toward the room glass of wine in hand nylons […]

Flash Fiction Winners – 2023   Judging a flash-fiction contest is like being let loose in a tapas bar—without the discomfort afterwards. This year’s entries did not di […]

Richmond, Monday Morning by Debbie Collins The Saint Francis Center is hopping this morning, people lined up all jive and jest the addicts and drunks and misfits file in and out, raw […]

Reaching Out by Fred Wilbur Among rural Piedmont foothills, coves of the gentle Blue Ridge Mountains, is where I live. There is no incorporated town in the county; the […]

The Open Shed by Mark Belair With its double doors swung wide and its mower rolled out and parked beside bags of spring grass seed, the open cemetery shed makes each […]

A Bridge to Somewhere by Alex Joyner Something there is that doesn’t love a bridge. At least on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Oh, when I lived there, we were proud of the engineering mar […]

Primitive Reflexes by Thomas Mampalam In the space of one hour: coma then a blown pupil, extensor posturing. Hemicraniectomy to relieve swelling from a large cerebral infarction. The […]

Water Ice Was The First One by Andrew Snover   Here are the two things I can remember that together most starkly display the change. The second one was a plastic cooler piled full of […]

New Work by Edward Michael Supranowicz   I grew up studying and using traditional methods and materials in painting, printmaking, and drawing, learning the characteristics and […]

Dismantling Bethlehem by Sam Barbee After-Xmas industry. In neighborhoods, crisp cedars and spruce pines hyphenate curbs. A pasture fronts the orphanage, tempers grid of brick […]

Love in Life’s Tunnels by Linda Styles Berkery Linda Berkery is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2023 Essay/Memoir Contest Ten years ago, I was the one with memory loss. I was repeating […]