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 […]

This Kid by Kathleen McKitty Harris This is me in 1975, with one of my best friends: my grandparents’ dog Sandy. This kid became tough as fuck, even though she was scared to death f […]

Rembrandt Etchings by Frederick Pollack     From however far away, detail. The lovers, almost fully clothed, amid bushes, her round blonde face delighted, hopeful. The r […]

Winners of 2023 Art Search Contest     This year’s Art Search Contest drew from a pool of talented artists far and wide. Their works included handsome photographs and l […]

Monosyllabic by J. R. Solonche The best ones are the small ones, those you need to hold in your hand two or three at a time, those you need to feel for size, and shape, and […]

Southbound by Sharon Ackerman My dad’s family bible and watch finally arrived in the mail to me nearly twenty years after his death. How it happened is a circuitous story, worthy o […]

Punding by Eric Forsbergh It’s working all of us, and all the time. Not just as obvious obsessions with diagnostic names, the car-horn ones you notice corralling s […]

Hot Guy From Photography Class by Alice Archer   The instant we walk into the next room, which is all photographs—black-and-white rocks casting shadows in a desert, dirty-faced Depression ki […]

Afterglow by Emily Littlewood My dog sits right next to me. He’s a fourteen-almost-fifteen year old soft-coated wheaton terrier. He’s recovering from another bout of pneumonia, onl […]

Free Swim by Marjory Ruderman Streetlight Voices: Short Fiction & Memoir · Free Swim by Marjory Ruderman   Podcast: “Free Swim” is a story about uneasy sleep. A f […]

Handout by Michael T. Young A day of forgetting has its price, but a price that can’t be reckoned, because the receipt itself was shoved into a pocket, soaked in the l […]

Male Enhancement Or, You Think I Need a New Email Address? by Susan Shafarzek Seems like every morning I find myself weeding my inbox: delete, delete, delete, like a gardener tending a hopeless patch. I’m wary of accidentally o […]

The Photography of Margo Hamilton and Ron Evans     Margo Hamilton and Ron Evans share a studio and a passion for photography. At their studio at the McGuffey Arts Center in C […]

Atheist and Not Now, Maybe Not Ever, 2 poems by Claire Rubin Scott Atheist At seven I stopped believing in Santa after Mary Lou whispered to me betrayed by adults lured into an unreal world I stopped believing […]

Find the Difference by Rigel Oliveri Rigel Oliveri is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2023 Essay/Memoir Contest It was late on a Saturday night. My son, who had just turned nine, […]

The Pleasure of Ruins by Trudy Hale Not too long ago, I was walking my black lab down Norwood Road when an acquaintance stopped his truck to chat. He said he was concerned about my […]

Message by Mary Christine Kane Last night I called you. Moon sharp, I said, like an important message. Look up. The sky has opened its story and shined its shy star. It’s a p […]

Susan Northington Looks to the Horizon     The horizon line has long been a source of inspiration for landscape artist Susan Haley Northington. She remembers growing up in S […]

and yet the moon by Nimisha Mondal your father is dying on the other side of the world and yet, the moon shines into our bedroom my mother has broken her ankle and can’t walk […]

Allison Moves In by Margie Shepherd   Allison did not come to the decision to move in with Gregory lightly. She loved her little apartment, absolutely loved it. It was a source […]