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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 months, 1 week ago
Elegy for a Soldier by Will Hemmer In the pulsing heat, in the black cathedral of war, the amber-tinted silver of infra-red illuminates a man. Nimble in the moment between the […]
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Emily Littlewood wrote a new post 5 months, 1 week ago
The Best Piece of Writing Advice Most Writers Don’t Listen To by Lauren Sapala For most writers, writing is a strong inner calling. It feels like a passion that they can’t ignore, a destiny they must fulfill. And for writers w […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Bloodroot in March by Gary Grossman 1. Regardless of the year, it’s the first flower seen on my daily hikes, pushing through every November’s abandoned duvet of tan and umb […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Closet Full of Darlings by Erika Raskin Lots of people have gotten credit for the literary adage advising writers to kill their darlings. In fact it was Arthur […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Joshua Number Eight by E. Hume Covey If you could sit totally still for long enough on the big rock by the sycamore, the catfish would peek out tentatively from the hollow u […]
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Emily Littlewood wrote a new post 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Interview by J Brooke of Hotel Cuba's author Aaron Hamburger I first met Aaron Hamburger at a cocktail party during grad school. I was a writing student focusing on nonfiction and poetry and Hamburger was part […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 5 months, 3 weeks ago
a cricket's delight by IIma Quereshi one tree- with its small hands and another with its star-laced fingers brush against the sky the sky that looks like a sea drained of […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Writers' Joy by Fred Wilbur Writers or bloggers who write about writing often express the difficulties of practicing the craft in romantic terms of justification. Maybe not […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Cockatiel not you by Sean Lause Cockatiel, not you, a yellow and orange assertion. Bright with her own meanings, clatters round the outside of her cage, without […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 5 months, 4 weeks ago
The Hibiscus by Amy Boyes Amy Boyes has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Essay/Memoir Contest The hibiscuses arrived in six-inch grower pots. Packed for […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 months, 4 weeks ago
The Cat Goddess of Apartment 15B by Alex Barr The back of Bill’s neck smells for some reason of peach and is delightfully warm to my lips. He murmurs something I don’t catch but sounds lik […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 6 months ago
The Paintings of Jeannine Regan Art runs in my family. My great grandfather was an architect in Germany before they immigrated to the U.S. before WWI. His daughter, m […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 6 months ago
Laundry by Charlie Brice Fat Auntie Ursal with her coffee-breath, baggy pink house dress, and worried rosary beads would haul a basket of linen to the backyard, pick […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 6 months, 1 week ago
The Importance Of Interior Design In Writing by Erika Raskin The way someone curates their personal space conveys who they are. For a writer, that’s hugely important. “Show, don’t tell” is a guiding […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 6 months, 1 week ago
God by Mel Kenne God must be, I dare now to say, like a cat, with His / Her / Its impertinence and delays in ordering our lives, loves and ways of being […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Why I Loved the 8-Track by Karen Weyant Today, we stream any song we can find, google obscure one-hit wonders, and watch anyone make their own music videos on TikTok, but back before they […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Bus Was Late: a Stamford Memory by Jeffrey Coughter Jeffrey Coughter has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Essay/Memoir Contest On a sunny, breezy late October morning in 1959, I […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Waterfall by Jo Riglar Jo Riglar is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight’s Flash Fiction Contest I reached the waterfall as the rain started. Little vicious drops. A […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Call of the Wild by Trudy Hale I wanted to write about hunting season here in the rural countryside, the howling packs of dogs, the men and women who sit in muddy trucks on the side […]
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Roselyn Elliott commented on the post, 17 Year Cicada by David B. Prather 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Wow, such a good poem, the way it carries seamlessly, literally and figuratively all the way through! Thank you.
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