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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Betelguese by Stephanie Coyne DeGhett 3 weeks, 2 days ago
What the sky chart would indicate is that he and his dog, Bella, are looking at is the constellation Orion. But what he sees is the Frozen Butterfly, one of the constellations his sister taught him. Jack […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, The Eyes of an Editor by Erika Raskin 3 weeks, 6 days ago
I recently accepted a beautiful piece of writing by an author who wrote back to thank me — and to graciously say he’s open to feedback—which was a lovely, appreciated response. Writers have been known to b […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, Clutter by Trudy Hale 1 month ago
When my late husband set out to write his memoir he purchased Life As Story, by Tristine Rainer. He studied the book’s exercises and wrote in the margins. I want to read his annotations again. Feel the swoop of […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Cats by Christine Tucker 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Hey, son. It’s your Mama. Hope y’all are doing good up there. I’m callin’ cause I’ve got a little problem here.
So, did you hear about that storm we had a couple days ago, that derecho? Well, none […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Stupid Old Oak Tree by Kathleen McKitty Harris 1 month, 3 weeks ago
It’s just a stupid old oak tree, I keep telling myself, while I sit at the kitchen table and watch the white winter sunlight bathing its branches. It’s dying, I say, as I wipe away tears and busy myse […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Speechless by Peggy Schimmelman 2 months, 2 weeks ago
In the small Appalachian town where I was born lived a squat, bowlegged, hairless doctor. Some called him a quack and a dope fiend, but in 1954 he delivered me on his dining room table, spanked me ‘til I c […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Bonfire of the Vanities: Coming to a School Board Near You by Deborah M. Prum 3 months, 1 week ago
Twenty years ago, a reporter called me with bizarre news, so bizarre that I instantly wrote him off as a prank caller. He claimed he was from a town out West, maybe in Colorado? I am fuzzy on the details. I […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, Re-Wilding by Laura Marello 3 months, 2 weeks ago
There is a 1990s concept, or perhaps an older concept made new and currently gaining currency, called “re-wilding.” It is the prospect of making tamed and domesticated things wild again. Since 2008 or so, this con […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Time Suck by Erika Raskin 5 months ago
Here are things that I have done to avoid writing: chase my recalcitrant dog around the house for an entire afternoon trying to clip his nails, read all the comments on an article I wasn’t even that […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Susceptible to Scratches by Nancy Ludmerer 5 months ago
Nancy Ludmerer is the 3rd place winner in Streetlight’s 2021 Flash Fiction Contest
Before the pandemic, the desk had been his province exclusively since only he worked from home, but in their forced […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Places To Go, Things To See by Richard D. Key 5 months, 1 week ago
Richard D. Key is the 2nd place winner in Streetlight’s 2021 Flash Fiction Contest
In this episode of PTGTTS I’ll be talking about Earth, a little planet out at the edge of the galaxy, not to be c […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Free Swim by Marjory Ruderman 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Marjory Ruderman is the 1st place winner in Streetlight’s 2021 Flash Fiction Contest
Phoebe was busier than ever, juggling depression and a midlife crisis. She dreamt of favorable circumstances […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Sliced by E.H. Jacobs 6 months, 1 week ago
Jared lies in bed, propped up by his arms folded behind his head, a two-day stubble peppering his face and neck. One foot dangles off the side of the mattress. Dark, wiry hairs spring out of his leg, exposed […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, Whose Story Is It? by Trudy Hale 6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Twitter world ‘blew-up’ with writers weighing in on the “Bad Art Friend” article in the New York Times in early October (NY Times link below).
I had sympathized with the kidney donor whose life and letter […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Like Savion by Bess Wiley 7 months ago
He’s in one of my rooms. I pay attention to it now, because his window is closest to the nurses’ station and faces the automatic doors I push my cleaning cart through. I see him as soon as the doors bre […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Honest Wedding Vows for Real Marriages by John Pavlovitz 7 months ago
I’ve had the honor of officiating many weddings over the past two decades. They’ve all been beautiful in their way, but more often than not the vows exchanged have been—naive, to say the least. I know min […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Maan Singh Gabbar by Reeya Banerjee 7 months, 2 weeks ago
It was about 2:45 a.m., and Sherin George sat miserably on a ratty sofa in a cabin in rural Uttarakhand State in North India. She was exhausted and wanted nothing more than to lie down and sleep, b […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, We Need to Talk by Erika Raskin 7 months, 2 weeks ago
People have lost their minds.
Seriously.
They’re comparing masks to yellow stars and saying vaccine passports are signs of tyranny, refusing to comply as a sign of resistance.
Please.
My dog […]
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Trudy commented on the post, Once Upon a Time In Montecito by Trudy Hale 8 months ago
Dear Bess,
Thank you. Yes, Billy would have loved the absurdity
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Pink Peonies by Alexis Kelleher 8 months, 1 week ago
Aunt Maggie laughs with a Marlboro Red clamped between her lips. A metallic party hat sits atop her matted, white hair, fastened with a cheap elastic band under her turkey-wattle chin. Today s […]
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