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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • “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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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. […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • Gorgeous work and beautifully written! Bravo!

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    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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Looks like her writing skills haven’t waned, despite the challenges. Quite nice!

  • 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 […]

  • PORTRAITURE
    Our dinner ends with watching Portrait
    Artist of the Year. For Adele likeness is all,
    while I focus on the how of its attainment.

    Beginnings proliferate and lead on to
    ever more […]

  • Thanks, Erika. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

  • Thank you, Lynda, for reading and for your comment. So glad you found it moving. One of the profound experiences of my life.

  • What a lovely essay and heart-breaking piece!

  • I was walking our dog this evening, around six o’clock, when I heard the low rumble of an approaching train. I live in Silver Spring, Md., a few blocks from where the tracks cross over Georgia Ave.

    When […]

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