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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 4 months, 3 weeks ago
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 […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 4 months, 3 weeks ago
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 […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 4 months, 3 weeks ago
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 […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 4 months, 4 weeks ago
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 […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 5 months ago
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 […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 months ago
Mentor by Jeanne Julian
for Alfred Kern,1924-2009 Search Amazon for his novel, The Width of Waters, and you get No Image […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 months ago
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 […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 5 months, 1 week ago
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 […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 months, 1 week ago
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 […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 5 months, 2 weeks ago
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 […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 months, 2 weeks ago
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 […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 5 months, 2 weeks ago
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 […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 months, 3 weeks ago
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 […]
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Fred Wilbur commented on the post, Writing For A Generation by Joel F. Johnson 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Provocative blog and a book sure to be read. Thanks, Joel.
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Writing For A Generation by Joel F. Johnson
We write for a target audience. Readers differ in their demographics as well as their literary tastes. When my novel, Never, was published, I began […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 months, 4 weeks ago
What Horses Say and Stains, 2 poems by Rita Quillen
What Horses Say What’s to be made of the field of buttercups, a saffron sea at the bend of the road, with the three h […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Blindsided by Jeanne Malmgren
Jeanne Malmgren is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest This should be a quick in-and-out, I’m thinking. As we wa […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 6 months ago
Writing Through Autocracy by Karol Lagodzki
The one and only time I put a knife in my pocket heading out to church was on Sunday, December 13, 1981. My mother, a single parent, was […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 6 months ago
A Stone by Debbie Bennett
It was a flat grey stone, the kind you found in tourist shops, with pre-set words. What a strange gift from Andrea, I’d thought, and plunked it into m […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 6 months ago
Moonlight by Ronald Stottlemyer
This is the light of stillness after everything has been said and thought, after the day has been brought to its knees once more, after the […]
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