Father's Day by Rebecca Faulkner Rebecca Faulkner is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2025 Poetry Contest Father’s Day Mum says I have a new family now, matter-of-fact with […]

The Wrong Turn On My Career Path, From Which I'm Still Recovering A Quarter Century Later by Erika Raskin Years ago, before I decided to bite the bullet and embrace the soul crushing rejection that often goes with Being A Writer, I decided to try my hand […]

Barbara MacCallum's Androgynous Art Artist Barbara MacCallum claims androgyny as her creative terrain. “I’m interested in male and female, nothing too macho or too feminine but the gap […]

Of All the Qualities She Could Have Inherited by Abby Murray Abby Murray is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2025 Poetry Contest   Of All the Qualities She Could Have Inherited She carries my […]

A Day of Firsts by David Stern The first time that my brother and I had gone sailing without Dad. The first time we checked the weather and set a course like real navigators. The […]

The Tet Offensive by Debbie Collins They tried to protect us from the TV as it vomited unspeakable news straight from Cronkite, night after night Age six, I snuck looks at the […]

Ephemeral Streams by Richard Stimac If the river is a metaphor for life and death, for time, and loss of time, for the rise and fall of seasons, for disastrous floods that carry hope […]

These Days by William Prindle The working title for my forthcoming poetry book is A Furious Surrendering: Poems for Navigating the Unraveling. The title poem contains these […]

Pancakes by Cynthia Gallaher Spooned out formed by force of gravity diameter to be determined, from silver dollar to as big as a frisbee. Over burning embers, prehistoric […]

The Wedding Dress by Trudy Hale Weddings create their own weather. I had no idea. I did not have a big wedding myself. It was spontaneous and the only white article of clothing I had […]

The Secret Garden by Irina Moga I am back in Seoul after a fourteen-hour flight, fresh off the airport shuttle and into the city center, at the Nine Tree Hotel check-in desk. It’s a […]

Swings by Joyce Compton Brown ………………………………………….After Fragonard’s Les Hasards heureux d’escarpolette Fragonard’s lady sways among the cloud […]

It’s Fall (ish) And The Flash Fiction Results Are In! by Erika Raskin and Mary Esselman   The school bus is squeaking past again, there’s a pumpkin/watermelon cage match in the produce aisle and — most critically — the annual influx […]

Self Portrait as a Pile of Dirty Laundry by Jeff Newberry I never sort my clothes. Sorry, mom. Sure, my whites gray and colors fade, but they all go into the same load. All share the same daily sweat and […]

Combined Training by Amelia Zahm Amelia Zahm is the third place winner of Streetlight’s 2025 Essay/Memoir Contest Long strides carry her forward. I hear joy, that annoying […]

What Do Dogs Do All Day? by Erika Raskin   Trixie Dougan Bijou Bellman was my mom’s dachshound when she was a kid. Though extremely short, Trixie had a rich and independent life. She […]

Hope by Carlene M. Gadapee Remember that time you spent five whole dollars on a ticket to win a calf at the fair? What you thought we’d do with a little cow, I have no i […]

Let the Leaves Turn by Fred Wilbur   I possess a book on reading at the beach. How to Read a North Carolina Beach* is one of those few books you need a beach to enjoy fully, one […]

My Father the Mixologist by Mara Lee Grayson If you’d met him on a Greyhound bus in 1962 he’d have asked you to look out for Kerouac on every corner or find Mickey Mouse beneath a pal […]

Portraits by Nigerian Artist Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel   The portraits of Nigerian artist Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel reveal his empathy, respect and sensitivity to his subjects. “The suffering an […]