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Erika Raskin commented on the post, My Most Memorable Patient by Roselyn Elliott 1 week, 6 days ago
What a lovely essay and heart-breaking piece!
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Sunday Afternoons by Sean Grogan 1 week, 6 days 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 2 weeks, 2 days 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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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Regarding Your Time-Off Request by Sean-Taro Nishi 1 month, 3 weeks 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 2 months 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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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, The Chair by Sue Allison 2 months, 3 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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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Another Plastic Buddha by James William Gardner 3 months, 1 week 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, 3 weeks 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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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Erebus by Patrick Christie 4 months, 1 week 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, 2 weeks 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, 3 weeks 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 5 months 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 5 months, 1 week 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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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Trash Day by Harry James 6 months, 1 week 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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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Ear to the Ground by Erika Raskin 6 months, 4 weeks ago
The ascent of the Black Lives Matter movement and the overthrow of apartheid symbols in the Capital of the Confederacy made me think of some of the things I heard when we lived there:
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Under the Parking Lot Moon by Bonnie E. Carlson 7 months, 1 week ago
“I told you we should have made reservations,” Maya said.
“But this trip was supposed to be about spontaneity.”
Maya and Zephyr were driving across the country in their new used RV. They were celebra […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, The Murmuration by S.W. Gordon 8 months, 1 week ago
The day slipped into dusk as the ambient light ebbed imperceptibly like the liminal moment before the tide changes direction. Robin removed her Ray-Bans and stared up at the wide-open heavens above the El […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Nosey by Bobby Rayner 9 months ago
From beneath the dining room table he spots wisps of dust on chipped gray floorboards across the room. He hears his grandmother clop around the kitchen in her low-heeled shoes, into the pantry and out again. […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Dispatches From The Couch by Erika Raskin 9 months, 2 weeks ago
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
L.P. Hartley
That quote knocks me out so much I wanted to use it to launch into a safari through my own history. Perform a little dispassionate […] -
Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Elmer Toon by Phil Gallos 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Summer
Elmer Toon was always a little beyond the edge.
Elmer shot across the bridge from Dorsey Street and onto the big parking lot, head thrust out over the front wheel as he peddled full tilt on a […]
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