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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 7 months ago
I found my calling on a bleak Sunday afternoon in the fall of 1958, standing at the edge of a fetid swamp, questioning why bad things happened to little children. It was the day four-year-old Billy Flynn […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 8 months ago
Marie moved her mother Florence into an elder care facility only two months ago, but still got lost trying to find it. It was an incongruously red brick institutional building dropped into a suburban […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 1 year, 8 months ago
I once held my cousin in a Dixie cup. At least a part of him. The improvised committal on the banks of Nottoway Swamp was a fitting send-off for a man who wanted no ceremony. Prone to eccentricity and melancholia […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 8 months ago
This year’s flash fiction contest brought many great stories . . . and hard choices. (Seriously, it’s no lay-up trying to determine a winner when you have two judges with different writing backgrounds […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 9 months ago
Erik awakens full of pain, lying in a hospital bed in a propped position, his throat sore from the tube that snaked down into his mouth and nose, his limbs heavy and bruised. His head feels like it […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 9 months ago
I went on a museum field trip not too long ago and had a revelation.
I’m sure I’m not the first person to have pondered the following—but isn’t it wild to think that all sorts of currently priceless a […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 9 months ago
Serenity by the Sea by Virginia Watts Today is Nora Richard’s seventy-fifth birthday. She sighs, blows her nose, rests her head back against the scratchy, cheap couch that came wi […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 10 months ago
You’re twenty. Fresh-faced. Everyone else in this writing cohort is watching you, rubbernecking, wide-eyed, pale. They can smell the blood in the water. They know you are going to say something, you mu […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 11 months 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 1 year, 11 months 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 1 year, 11 months 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years, 1 month 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 2 years, 1 month 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 2 years, 2 months 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 2 years, 3 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 2 years, 3 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 2 years, 4 months 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 2 years, 4 months 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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