How Pain Matters by Mark Simpson Not thinking about it doesn’t make it go away. Recollection makes sense of it, invents details from the misremembered: as with open carry and its f […]

Krenshaw and the Tale of Memphis by Karys Rhea The fear of losing you torments me.  Krenshaw’s roommate, Annie Alessandra, was dating Tommy Stalwart. Krenshaw had introduced them a few months ba […]

Don’t Let Anyone Break Your Creative Heart by Deborah M. Prum My vocation is writing, but my avocation is painting, mostly portraits. I belong to a Facebook group dedicated to showing the work of artists who are […]

Trick of the Eye: Fresh Roasted by Richard Elliott Martin If you want a free lunch, All you have to do is smash, bleed, and work for it. Would you like some peanuts for lunch? Free sample, the sign on the […]

Lizzie Brown's Vibrant Portraits Richmond, Va. artist Lizzie Brown paints vivid and dramatic portraits to show the beauty, resilience, and strength of African Americans. Brown […]

New Year by Sharon Perkins Ackerman Autumn is officially over, leaves finally cleared, trees naked, winter sky a show of planets that begins early with Venus glazing the western sky. […]

Stealing Japanese Poetry by Robert Harlow Stealing Japanese poetry requires great skill, almost Ninja-like stealth, especially at night when there are so many poets out viewing the […]

The New House by Dawn Abeita It rained the day before so burying the cat wasn’t as hard as she thought it would be. She found a shovel in the shed, and wrapped her pet in an old t […]

Mehr Licht by Sharon Perkins Ackerman If I do a search for poems with the word light in the title, I get 12,600 hits. For dark, I get 6,000. This doesn’t scratch the surface of how many […]

Cockroaches in Coffee Pots by Rebecca Watkins Rebecca Watkins has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest    “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from a troubled dre […]

Teaching by J.R. Solonche Teaching, too, is labor. Everyday to be up to the task, everyday the master of a hundred worlds, of casual words, and of causal words, to confront […]

The Trivet by Nancy Halgren Through a dimly lit haze, I see myself in my adult son’s psych ward room, gathering his things into a paper bag so we can check out. I place his c […]

SUCHNESS and DITCH LILIES, 2 poems by Linda Parsons SUCHNESS Unable to find a bait station, the termite guy says Call me when you’ve trimmed all this. I say It’s supposed to be this way, a cot […]

New Cut Hay by Lawrence F. Farrar Immigration Service Camp, Kenedy, Texas – May 1944 Nearly two years had passed since a Peruvian policeman pointed a pistol at him and declared T […]

A Bragging Humility by Fred Wilbur   “It is true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own pers […]

One Moment Along the Food Chain by Marsha Owens This moment demands my attention. Tiny turtles, vulnerable as polar bears, bubble up from their sandy womb, struggle towards light borrowed from the […]

On the Edge by Trudy Hale When have you been convinced to change your mind? How did it happen? By negotiation? By beauty? By lament? By shock or threat? By what? The […]

Fountains by Amy Foster Myer They were back at the fountain as she had promised, Nicky’s sweet round belly against the marble ledge as he tried to reach for the p […]

Down the Shore by John Adinolfi Streetlight Voices: Short Fiction & Memoir · Down the Shore by John Adinolfi Podcast: “Down the Shore” is about the rhythm of the sea and a […]

Deus Absconditus by Philip Newman Lawton Philip Newman Lawton has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest   My sister Margaret is dead. Her body has gone […]