Holidays by Dominik Slusarczyk Dominik Slusarczyk is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Flash Fiction Contest   We stay up all night drinking. When we eventually […]

5 Writing Pitfalls To Avoid by Erika Raskin 1. Losing The Plot Think of being unable to tell someone what your work-in-progress is about as a seriously suspicious mole; a flashing warning […]

The red onion by Deborrah Corr Deborrah Corr has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2024 Poetry Contest The red onion is a purple globe. I hold it, let my skin adore […]

A Matter Of Time by Janis Jaquith Fiction is the lie that tells the truth. The truth is that there was a fire, six people died, and it was intentionally set. The spirit of Lisa […]

For Albemarle’s Sam Abell, Photographs Come from Within. By Russell Hart   The first thing Sam Abell entreats his workshop students to do is imagine their photographs without a primary subject. “I cover up the su […]

It's Done, Beautifully Again by Tim Suermondt Tim Suermondt has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2024 Poetry Contest It’s Done, Beautifully Again My wife, Pui Ying, shows me her […]

The world's ugliest coffee table. Probably made by Martha Stewart in prison by Wayne Bowman OK. Here’s the back story. A couple of years ago, I walked into the living room one Sunday morning, and noticed one of the big pillows my wife and I […]

Plop by Mary Walsh Plop A Rorschach inkblot appears on the cement before me. I veer to avoid the disgusting mess. Weirdly white for a germ filled poop, I fail to […]

Last Words by Caroline Malone I should have turned on the porch light, but the bulb is dead, I said, I had to leave her alone in the bathroom so I could stand outside and watch for […]

The Thinly Disguised Autobiography by Miles Fowler By the time I reached my teens, I was taken with the idea of writing a fictionalized autobiography, but as my college roommate, Barry, observed, no […]

Tongues of Fire by Sandra Hopkins Sandra Hopkins is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest   How did my grandpa, Papa Hop, know that it would be […]

Mentor by Jeanne Julian for Alfred Kern,1924-2009                 Search Amazon for his novel,               The Width of Waters, and you get                No Image […]

2024 Flash Fiction Contest by Erika Raskin   Once again, we had the opportunity to read a (virtual) stack of flash fiction pieces that have enlarged our worlds—and we are grateful. As us […]

For Notre Dame by Sian M. Jones An 800-year-old cathedral is burning to the ground. The world is in horror that things, too, can die, though we thought them immune or […]

Tips For Aging Women by Christine McDowell Tucker Let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that you’re considering getting old. We don’t recommend this course of action, of course, because the risks […]

Before the Ambulance and Dandelion, 2 poems by Dennis Cummings Before the Ambulance I saw him collapse on the trail that divides the golf course, then climbs and looks over the valley crowded with […]

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 […]