Our Age of Irony by Fred Wilbur What is the color of irony? This may be a silly notion, but we have given color designations to various kinds of writing. Yellow Journalism (today’s C […]

Emily as She Ate the Flower by Darren Demaree If you can fit the beauty in your mouth what makes you brave, to spit it out or to let the giver of gifts see you make it yours forever? […]

Asa Fowler by Miles Fowler I am leery of ancestor worship, but the more I research the history of my great-great grandfather, Asa Fowler, the more I find admirable about […]

My Husband Texting by Maureen Clark he texts me a photograph of the bear scat he found under the chokecherry bush which is bent to the ground stripped on one side of all its red […]

Cicadian Rhythm by Quincy Gray McMichael Quincy Gray McMichael has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest    As I stretch my shoulders, arms aloft, t […]

Becoming by Bill Glose When the ceramic tile shattered, I was ashamed I hadn’t cared better for this piece of art created by a friend, one part of a quadriptych. All I […]

Watercolors and Drawings by James Ellis   Watercolors came naturally to artist James Ellis. “The summer I finished elementary school I discovered my mom was taking a watercolor pa […]

Comfort in the Unknown by Emily Littlewood Like a lot of people, I’ve dealt with health issues my whole life. I have cystic fibrosis, which comes with a cornucopia of symptoms, like d […]

Hard Water by S. E. Wilson   The appointment was made for five-thirty so my wife Polly and I could both be there.  She worked in an office in town and I was working from h […]

A Place to Hold Us by Sharon Perkins Ackerman I ready myself to read poetry for a group of graduate students. They’ve had the ingenuity to find an old, abandoned chapel near campus and turn it i […]

Death Reprise by Lauren Dunn My mom died sometime last year. And it’s funny, I couldn’t tell you exactly when it happened. Well, it’s not so much funny as it is strange. Becau […]

Father's Day in Bujumbura by Alex Joyner She said she knew that it was Father’s Day in the U.S. and she began to tell me a story from the back seat as we bounced down rough dirt roads on t […]

Keeping Time and Awake in the Night, 2 poems by Patricia Hemminger Keeping Time The mayfly lives two days, a swallowtail butterfly two weeks. The last generation of monarchs born each year endure for months […]

Respite by Joseph Kleponis All is quiet; the winds have subsided; The storm’s dissonance is behind us. Sideways rain and sleet that tore through the night Have jeweled b […]

The Varied Works by Matthew Morpheus   I grew up in Ukraine, the heart of the freedom-loving Cossacks, surrounded by the rich cultural heritage of my people who had a strong […]

Self Driving to Eternity by Chibuike Ukah I stretched out my legs before me, ready to bury my dead bodies, when my boss invited me to his office and made me an immoral offer. He pleaded […]

Slugger by Walter Lawn I know a story they left out of her obituary. In the late 1970s and early 80s I worked in the Development Department at The Franklin Institute, the […]

Questions to Ask a Poem by Fred Wilbur Poem, come in, sit down. How are you getting along? Are people reading your ordinary troubles? Let’s talk about that. (I hear my fatherly voice: p […]

Figurative Works by Joseph A. Miller     Figurative painter Joseph A. Miller freeze-frames telling moments of childhood and beyond. He focuses on the human figure in e […]

A Plum on a Tree by Roselyn Elliott   In the ER, we try to save them all, yet, each death of a stranger is a small death inside me, an accumulation of failed effort that […]