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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 3 months, 1 week ago
Le Francais et Moi by Miles Fowler The other day, I was watching a TV program set during World War II. An American bomber group was about to drop leaflets over Nazi-occupied territory. […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Moonburst and Shortcuts, 2 poems by J. R. Solonche MOONBURST It was wan. It was white. It was sickly white. It was filled to full with white. It was white as a sheet. It saw a ghost. It saw […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 3 months, 2 weeks ago
A Winter's Tale by Trudy Hale 4:30 a.m. A barely audible humming wakes me from a deep sleep. It’s a faint yet unfamiliar sound. I am used to the quiet, to the ordinary sounds, so t […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Some Stories by Claire Scott Some stories last long past their appointed hour, like light from expired stars. Like leftover houseguests or five day fish. We walk toward […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 3 months, 3 weeks ago
All’s Fair in Love and Teacher Gifts by Ellen Weeren Even though it was early June, Elena wore an oversized, off-white cable-knit cardigan to the grocery store. The gift cards were displayed near the […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Frankie Slaughter Shows at Quirk Gallery Streetlight: When and how were you introduced to art? Frankie Slaughter: When I was growing up, my mother, a modern dancer, art historian […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 4 months ago
Old News by Joseph Kleponis It was late afternoon in fall or spring Because we were not wearing heavy coats. The pale sun was just starting to squinch down. As we left the […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 4 months ago
The Drawings of Lorraine Caputo During my growing up, I experimented with many media. I taught myself how to dig and process clay from local stream beds. I taught m […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 4 months ago
Kali Gandaki by Connie Clark I have a fear of heights. It is a fear of depths, too. Stand on the edge of the Grand Canyon and look down? No, no matter how beautiful it may be. Sit […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 4 months, 1 week ago
You Are Here by Erika Raskin I’ve written previously about missing a sense of direction and thought an update might be warranted: It still sucks. Recently, when I was […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Butter Moon by Lydia Gwyn The full moon is bright yellow tonight. She watches it rise above the tree line as she drives, rising above the high school building, the […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 4 months, 2 weeks ago
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 […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 4 months, 2 weeks ago
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 […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 4 months, 3 weeks ago
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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Trudy wrote a new post 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Merry Christmas from Streetlight! Merry Christmas from all of us at Streetlight!!
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 4 months, 3 weeks ago
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 […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 5 months ago
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 […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 months ago
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 […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 5 months ago
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 […]
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Paula Boyland wrote a new post 5 months, 1 week ago
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 […]
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