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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago
I went to see the Juneteenth rally in Richmond because I’ve always been drawn to stories, to seeing things unfold. Beneath the grand statue of Robert E. Lee, a large crowd gathered. Songs were sung and w […]
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Anita M commented on the post, The Murmuration by S.W. Gordon 5 years, 8 months ago
Nooooo… don’t die! 🙂
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Anita M commented on the post, The Writer’s Life Is Not an Easy One by Lauren Sapala 5 years, 8 months ago
This is an encouraging post. I love reading stories of a journey.
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago
Amy Stonestrom is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight Magazine’s 2020 Essay/Memoir Contest
A strange February morning, gray sky lined with tangerine. Ten degrees. From my spot in the front seat, bursts of flame […]
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Emily Littlewood wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago
When I first started writing, I couldn’t even call myself a writer. I had been NOT writing for seven years before I joined a silent writing program that I went to once a week to sit down and scrawl out a m […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago
The day slipped into dusk as the ambient light ebbed imperceptibly like the liminal moment before the tide changes direction. Robin removed her Ray-Bans and stared up at the wide-open heavens above the El […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago
“I was most grievously undone
when I lost my footing on the shelf
and swan dived to the floor
splayed and back broken”,
says the complete works of Shakespeare
who now leans against the cash reg […]
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Anita M commented on the post, Dispatches From The Couch by Erika Raskin 5 years, 8 months ago
Oh, I remember when these were some my prevalent thoughts, too.
It’s now a month later since you posted this piece, but it feels like at least three. Maybe because my mind keeps going back to the beginning of […] -
Deborah Kelly wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago
Much has been going on in the blogger’s back-of-the-blog life, compounded with news of the nation. And frankly, I have been mulling for well over a week on how to say what I want to say; or how to say anything, f […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
Richard Key is the 1st place winner of Streetlight Magazine’s 2020 Essay/Memoir Contest
Honeybees are swarming outside my home office under the eaves of the roofline. I would say they are hovering like tiny […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
Building rituals out of nothingness,
I’m sitting on a park bench, reading
Wallace Stevens on a sunny day
when the flashing shadow of a crow
darkens my library book.
Perfect, I think.
Where are the t […]
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Joe Guay, Voice Actor wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
Streetlight Voices: Short Fiction & Memoir · Firedamp by Tonja Matney Reynolds
Podcast: A story that captures the dimming light.A fictional story performed by Joe Guay.
Read the story online: Firedamp […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
When self-isolation measures were first enacted, five-year-old Vivian seemed excited about the whole thing. A new experience, unique to this time and place. She was playing with her mom, she yelled from her porch, […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
Christmas Eve Parable
Phoebe, my five-year-old granddaughter adores the tiny
wax Jesus who lies in the cradle of the creche that came
down to us from now dead great grandparents. Wise men,
Mary and Joseph, two […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
Sometimes I am asked to compare current artwork to pieces of the last few years. I can only do so in the most general terms: the images of my newer digital paintings may be a little sharper and co […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
From beneath the dining room table he spots wisps of dust on chipped gray floorboards across the room. He hears his grandmother clop around the kitchen in her low-heeled shoes, into the pantry and out again. […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
CHOPIN’S HEART
A brief apocalypse has taken possession of my person.
The streets are full of melancholy.Yesterday I fell asleep on the bus.
The sound of someone crying woke me.Was it the woman slumped i […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
Yasser Alaa Mobarak grew up in Alexandria, Egypt. When the Egyptian Revolution started in 2011, he was an eighteen-year-old teenager. “The protest took place in Shatby Station, Alexandria. It called fo […]
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Paula Boyland wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
I’ve been having some strange dreams lately, probably most of us have.
A cooked salmon lies in the middle of the highway, missing half his body, yet alive and showing no signs of distress. We all get out o […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
after Marie Howe
It doesn’t matter that the sugar maple is leaning
closer to the house, that the cluster of seeds
I planted yesterday will wash away.Something doesn’t add up.
The dishwasher sti […]
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