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  • During the months of our restricted movements, my wife and I have continued our nearly daily walking. Although we had developed the habit pre-Covid for the health of our bodies and minds, the pandemic has […]

  • “I told you we should have made reservations,” Maya said.

    “But this trip was supposed to be about spontaneity.”

    Maya and Zephyr were driving across the country in their new used RV. They were celebra […]

  • Billie Hinton is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight Magazine’s 2020 Essay/Memoir Contest
    I’m holding the reins of a twelve-hand half-Shetland pony when I get the call. My daughter hops into the saddle, I r […]

  • Alone, timeworn—but still
    standing, even if its paint-scuffed radiators
    give no heat and its window frames
    leak and its doors don’t
    shut tight, everything foundering
    since its elder kee […]

  • Trudy wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago

    It all started when a friend in California sent me three used paperbacks that someone donated to her sidewalk library. My friend and I hoped that my nephew who is stranded here during the pandemic without school […]

  • She beats her fist on the secretary desk. Its ancient wooden arms bear her blows. This is the place where her great uncle sat writing his weekly sermons, the place where her grandfather, the professor, sat […]

  • Incredible photos! Thank you.

  • 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 […]

  • Nooooo… don’t die! 🙂

  • This is an encouraging post. I love reading stories of a journey.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • “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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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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