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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 years ago
“Please forgive me. My illness won today. Please look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me.”
Some people are born with a different level of grace and goodness than the rest of us. My […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years ago
I could have stayed married to David if he
wasn’t so unwaveringly chiseled. If his deceptively supple
face wasn’t so perfectly defined. If Michelangelo could
have given me a dress that was low […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years ago
In a recent batch of ‘reviews’ from an online magazine, I was struck by the variety of descriptive words used to evaluate the thirty-five or so poems. They ranged from “funny,” “strong,” and “moving” to […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 5 years ago
There are audiobooks enhanced by the author’s voice reading their own words (Becoming by Michele Obama), and those where an otherwise terrific book in print is hindered by the author’s out-loud read (Kamala Har […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 5 years ago
On a windy day in December, just after the sun had set, I stepped out to go to the grocery store for milk. The wind whipped my hair across my glasses, and I didn’t see the uneven sidewalk by the Greek r […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years ago
Susan Muse has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2020 Poetry Contest
Clouds flatten against a gray sky
and cover what had once been the color
of bluebonnets only a moment ago.
Suddenly […]
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Deborah Kelly commented on the post, My Most Memorable Patient by Roselyn Elliott 5 years ago
Don’t know how I missed this back in February but glad I found it now … Such a beautifully written account of loving empathy I couldn’t stop reading, even though I should be working. Today’s pandemic has shown […]
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Emily Littlewood wrote a new post 5 years ago
“A vegetarian walked into a bar. . . . I only know because he told everyone within two minutes.” That joke perfectly encapsulates why I never tell anyone that I am a vegetarian. I either hypocritically write a blo […]
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Emily Littlewood wrote a new post 5 years ago
Streetlight Voices: Short Fiction & Memoir · The Murmuration by S.W. Gordon
Podcast: The Murmuration is story about bad choices.
A fictional story performed by Jennifer Sims.
Read the story on […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
Wendy Jean MacLean is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight’s 2020 Poetry Contest
Fenced in by the property owner
the beehive hut
of an Irish monk
still stands
as it has for fourteen […]
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Deborah Kelly wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
Mary, Mary, quite contrary . . . a splat from my Charlottesville restauranting days . . .
From the mid-1970s until the early 1980s, I co-owned a couple of Charlottesville restaurants with my second ex-husband. […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
They knew exactly when it would happen. Not just the day and the hour, but the minute. The very second. Even before they knew it, it was still destined to happen at that precise moment because it had […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
Rebecca leaned into the driver’s-side window while I let the engine idle. Her brown hair had lengthened over the summer, and some strands fluttered into the car. The constellations in the ink-black sky and two l […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
Charlotte Rea is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2020 Poetry Contest
So proud you must be, atop
the fence rail, its flat
black the perfect
matte for
your copper.
Your telltale […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
When insomnia provokes my wife or I to walk the footprint of our house, we sometimes end up at our bookroom. Bookroom is an idiosyncratic idiom of our family as my grandparents used the term, logically enough, […]
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Deborah Kelly commented on the post, Nothing but Light: Works by David Summers 5 years, 1 month ago
Gorgeous work and beautifully written! Bravo!
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
My attention often falls on things that just happen to be right where they are, set down here or there, together with this or that, thoughtlessly, as we say. These are gatherings of things I happen t […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
Susan Muse is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2020 Poetry Contest
Peas are on.
The kitchen smells of fatback
and cornbread rising in a rush of heat from the stove,
unfurling around me like those […]
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Deborah Kelly commented on the post, Where Are My Words? by Pamela Potter 5 years, 1 month ago
Looks like her writing skills haven’t waned, despite the challenges. Quite nice!
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Paula Boyland wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
All my life, I’ve processed joy and sorrow, confusion and diatribe, in writing. I have a book of hand written poems working through the tragedies and angst of a teenage mindscape. I have notebooks journaling my c […]
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