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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Echeveria Colorata: A Self-Care Manual by Ali Curtis 4 days, 10 hours ago
The plant in the corner needs to be watered. It’s staring at Anita again. A cold deadpan interspersed with the occasional slow blink. The plant doesn’t have a mouth but if it did she imagines that it would yel […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Voicelessness by Anita Lekic 2 weeks, 4 days ago
I’m dreaming. I am in my old life, the life that no longer exists. I am married and I have a daughter, although in the dream she is young and not an adult. And things are going wrong. We are in the midst of a l […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, On Field Pond by E. H. Jacobs 1 month ago
We put the canoe in, Sophie and I, before the sun had warmed the pond and the fog had dissipated. Enveloped by the smell of damp-draped earth, we paddled in silent synchrony, each paddle angled […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, Deep Ellum B.C. by Alex Joyner 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Wednesday night in Deep Ellum, the eclectic little arts neighborhood lingering in the shadow of I-45 east of Dallas’s downtown. Ever since the 19-teens when Blind Lemon Jefferson came to the barbershops and d […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Trespass by Stephanie Coyne DeGhett 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The dog had gotten out, slipped out, wriggled out, sneaked out. Too smart for her own good—clever at door latches, willing to bide her time when the mood was on her to go solo. You’d think it was too cold to wan […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Art: You Know It When You See It 1 month, 3 weeks ago
From impressionism to pointililsm to my nursery-school grandboy’s stick figures with appendage-sprouting-heads, the outward expression of other peoples’ internal creativity knocks me out. Whatever it is. […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, For Sale on eBay by K.E. Ogden 2 months, 2 weeks ago
K.E. Ogden is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight Magazine’s 2019 Short Fiction Contest.
One short-haired, German Rex single-owner cat about one year-old, up-to-date on shots, I think, although Mom got a […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, What Do You Feel by Julia Ballerini 3 months ago
Julia Ballerini is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight Magazine’s 2019 Short Fiction Contest.
I was persuaded, if not coerced, to join a group therapy session. My boss was concerned about my mental well-being. I […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, A Runaway Life by Mariflo Stephens 3 months, 3 weeks ago
I live a runaway life. I’m a writer, a wife, and a mother and, like a lot of women who tire of the multi-layered duties that come with that combination, I need to get away. Right now, what I’m running away fro […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Eureka by Bill Bruce 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Bill Bruce is the 1st place winner of Streetlight Magazine’s 2019 Short Fiction Contest.
“Hey”
“hey”
“What’re you up to?”
“not […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Announcing the 2019 Short Fiction Winners 4 months ago
Co-judging the annual fiction competition with Suzanne Freeman is a little like being each other’s plus-one at a silent auction. We independently review the wares that are displayed on a virtual table, offerings […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, Journaling with Jenny by Jenny Patton 4 months, 1 week ago
When I was seven, I made my own journal out of legal pad paper—a little book that sparked a lifelong passion for writing down my thoughts, feelings and desires. E.M. Forster asks, “How do I know what I think u […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, A Craft Talk by Katherine Smith 4 months, 4 weeks ago
ALLOWING THE LEAF
For an ultrasound exam, I ran on a treadmill and then was hooked up to a machine that showed my heart pumping blood. It was an incredible thing to see my heart keeping perfect time, beating […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Firedamp by Tonja Matney Reynolds 5 months, 1 week ago
The canary was still. It was too late to run. Too late to escape. Too late to pray for God’s mercy.
Matt had been one of the lucky ones, one of sixteen coal miners chosen to work on a Saturday mo […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Postcards and Authors by Anita Martin 6 months ago
You are quirky in a very classy way. Postcards and trinkets and such. You make it all so interesting.
Unathi to Anita
Dear Debbie,Is your spirit smiling as I work on my third act? It’s been over ten y […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Talisman by E.H. Jacobs 6 months ago
Morning hunkered over the house, gray and unyielding, pressing through the spaces between the drawn shade and the window frame. Wes sat on the edge of the bed in underwear and socks, next to a […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Gemini by Charlotte Morgan 7 months ago
When that technician pointed out two heartbeats and two precious teensy penises on the screen, I was over the moon. Buddy leaned over and kissed me and cried real quiet-like, like he wasn’t actually crying, b […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, Time To Write by Laura Marello 7 months, 1 week ago
So delicious—this light, this air, this time, my time, because I have constructed a solitary life in order to free up time to write. Ice chatters in cool, stevia-sugared lime juice; I look out through the window a […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Vena Amoris by Kathleen McKitty Harris 7 months, 2 weeks ago
When he put this ring on my finger, my skin was smoother, and more supple. My hand was thinner, and less freckled than it is now. When he asked me to marry him, he got down on one knee in front of the London […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Salmonella Summer by Suzanne C. Martinez 7 months, 2 weeks ago
I spent four days and nights smashed against a bus window in transit to my first husband’s family reunion half nauseous from breathing in the diesel fumes and the aroma of the chemical toilet a few feet behind u […]
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