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Erika Raskin commented on the post, My Most Memorable Patient by Roselyn Elliott 2 days, 4 hours ago
What a lovely essay and heart-breaking piece!
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Sunday Afternoons by Sean Grogan 2 days, 18 hours ago
I was walking our dog this evening, around six o’clock, when I heard the low rumble of an approaching train. I live in Silver Spring, Md., a few blocks from where the tracks cross over Georgia Ave.
When […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Collection Day Winton Place 1995 by Rachel Lippolis 5 days, 16 hours ago
Sylvia wished she saw anything but houses when she looked out her bedroom window. A field, a lake, or the foggy moors of Wuthering Heights. Or if there must be houses, let them be stately. Like Pemberley or […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, The Eternal Clamor of the Unquiet Mind by E.H. Jacobs 1 month, 1 week ago
My evolution from wanting to write, to loving writing, to having to write did not proceed quietly. The more I lost myself in the craft, the more I anguished over what it meant to be “good enough” and, once goo […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Regarding Your Time-Off Request by Sean-Taro Nishi 1 month, 1 week ago
To: Team Members
From: Jill Valentine, MENTOR
Re: Time-Off Requests
Dear Team,
First off, how lucky we are to still be thriving in this economy! Because not everyone’s so lucky. Some people are o […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Eternally, Me by Erika Raskin 1 month, 3 weeks ago
I’ve written before about the upside of long-term ditziness (mostly having to do with the silver-lining aspect of it not being a new, and therefore alarming, decline.) And I’m glad that I’ve documented it.
The […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, When the Student Is Ready, the Lizard Appears by Susan Lubeck Moriarty 2 months, 1 week ago
I was on the patio in my lounge chair journaling. The year was 2017 and I had been living in Los Angeles for the past twenty-three years, having moved from Chicago. I loved my husband Dave, family and friends but […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, The Chair by Sue Allison 2 months, 2 weeks ago
My mother had a chair that when she sat in it, she was invisible. At first she put it in a corner where she would be unseen and could not be found and where she would hide from our rambunctiousness and our […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, Review of Anne Whitehouse's Outside From the Inside by Nancy Ludmerer 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Anne Whitehouse’s moving new poetry collection, Outside from the Inside (Dos Madres Press, 2020), takes us on four journeys, each with its pains and losses, its accretions of insight and moments of joy. In the f […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Another Plastic Buddha by James William Gardner 2 months, 4 weeks ago
The truck stop parking lot reverberated with idling big diesel engines. The air smelled like sour urine. Randal Whitley stood by the open door of his cab smoking a cigarette and drinking his morning coffee. A […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Self, Expression by Anne Holzman 3 months, 1 week ago
Anne Holzman is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight’s 2020 Flash Fiction Contest
I hear you before I see you. I start working on arranging my face.
There’s the ding-ding of the elevator, the door op […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, A Capital Morning on Virginia’s Eastern Shore by Alex Joyner 3 months, 3 weeks ago
You tiptoe back towards religion, in my experience, cautiously and nervously and more than a little suspicious, quietly hoping that it wasn’t all smoke and nonsense, that there is some deep wriggle of genius and p […]
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Sharron Singleton commented on the post, Haunted By Halloween by Priscilla Melchior 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Great story, Priscilla!
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Erebus by Patrick Christie 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Captain had not been himself ever since we extracted the frozen bird carcass from the ice. He had become withdrawn, seeking solitude, showing disinterest in his duties even as four of his men resided in the […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, On Being Threatened with Hellfire in the Second Grade by Martha Woodroof 4 months, 1 week ago
My father was an atheist; my mother, an agnostic. My parents preached conscience and character to their two daughters instead of dogma.
I grew up in Greensboro, N.C., a city with seven colleges. Outside of […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Next to Godliness by Sheila Longton 4 months, 1 week ago
Sheila Longton is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2020 Flash Fiction Contest
What I remember of my mother is this: She is down on her hands and knees, crawling backwards along the hallway, s […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Mayim by Nancy Ludmerer 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Nancy Ludmerer is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2020 Flash Fiction Contest
The Lubavitch Hasidim are sending two teen volunteers to spend time with our daughter. I resist at first, but […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Flash Fiction Contest Winners by Erika Raskin 4 months, 4 weeks ago
It is no easy task to provide a peek into a textured world, with backstory, present and possibility —in only five hundred words. The writers who submitted to our Flash Fiction Contest took on the challenge a […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, The Enormous Gift by Laura Marello 5 months ago
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
Simone Weil
Love is not merely an emotion. It is a meltdown that reestablishes a more unified space of brilliance, goodness, and sadness. This is the real function of love […] -
Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Trash Day by Harry James 6 months ago
Once a week a Sergeant and a Driver were detailed to take the garbage from the Camp mess hall and dump it at the impromptu garbage dump out on the far end of the runway.
In a country where much of the rural […]
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