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Trudy wrote a new post, A Runaway Life by Mariflo Stephens 2 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 2 weeks, 3 days 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 1 month, 2 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 1 month, 4 weeks 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 2 months, 3 weeks 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 2 months, 3 weeks 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 3 months, 3 weeks 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 3 months, 4 weeks 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 4 months 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 4 months, 1 week 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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Trudy wrote a new post, Hooligans and Lunatics by Alex Joyner 4 months, 1 week ago
“We’re walking to the midnight service?” my daughter asked. “With all the hooligans out there.”
It was Christmas Eve. I looked out the window onto the streets of our Eastern Shore town. A mostly full moon moved […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Inhabiting Your Character by Deborah Prum 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Have you ever used virtual reality goggles to watch a movie? Imagine that the film starts off in an African village. Ahead of you, you see a hut and can almost smell the smoke rising from a campfire. You hear […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Broken by Alison Thompson 4 months, 3 weeks ago
On the third visit, they kicked his stomach and broke his thumbs. The bones cracked like an electrical charge shooting through his entire body, exiting via his skull, as if everything he knew, everything he […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Photo of My Street by Katie Davis 5 months, 1 week ago
A few years back, a new neighbor called. “Katie, there’s an old man leaning against my front wall, should I call the police?”
I pulled my window up and leaned out to look, just two houses over. There was Paul, […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Shop of the Heart by Cynthia L. Singerman 5 months, 3 weeks ago
“You can get a wax.” She rubs the stubbly black fuzz on my calves, nodding. “A little long.”
“Yeah, I know. It’s been cold.” I feel the need to defend myself to the woman painting my toenails. Suddenly my m […]
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Sharron Singleton commented on the post, Woe Be Gone by Priscilla Melchior 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Priscilla, lovely writing. We’re enjoying Seattle but I miss you and all my VA friends!
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Cat Ladies by Paula Spurlin Paige 7 months ago
It was a sticky, overcast August day in the Connecticut River Valley, and it was going to be a heavy one.
Already, at 9:00 in the morning, Ed was poking his head into a series of little rooms upstairs in […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Of Cars, Lucille Ball and Dogged Determination by Erika Raskin 7 months, 2 weeks ago
The quarterly meeting of Streetlight’s editorial staff had just ended. It was a particularly uplifting one. It’s incredibly gratifying to be part of a team that is committed to ushering art into the world. We tac […]
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