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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, THE MURMURATION by S.W. Gordon 1 week, 1 day 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 1 month 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 1 month, 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 […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Elmer Toon by Phil Gallos 1 month, 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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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Aerial View by Virginia Watts 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Hannah Fisher keeps the curtains closed in every room of the farmhouse night and day. Windowsills are stuffed with juice glasses brimming with seasonal wildflowers: delicate, snow-white Queen Anne’s Lace, purple c […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Midnight by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro 3 months, 1 week ago
It was raining hard and Eunice’s husband, Oliver, insisted on getting the car from the lot and bringing it around to the front of Brucie’s, where they were regulars. You could get supper for two, dessert inc […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Writing Kid Characters by Erika Raskin 3 months, 1 week ago
One time I was on a literary panel and the interviewer asked why I chose to have three kid characters in Best Intentions. I sat there thinking (all eyes on me), ‘Eek, is he saying that was too many? Should I h […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, A Challenge is a Challenge is a Challenge by Martha Woodroof 4 months, 2 weeks ago
To me, being alive means dealing with one challenge after another—some glorious, others not so much. My current, decidedly inglorious challenge is having chemotherapy for metastatic cancer. I think of ch […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Brazilian Vacation by Cécile Barlier 5 months ago
It’s insane to try to sort days out of days. Some days you have it and some you don’t, but the thing you have or not is never just one thing: it is a stockpile, an accumulation, a buildup, a collection, a poo […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Echeveria Colorata: A Self-Care Manual by Ali Curtis 5 months, 3 weeks 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 6 months, 1 week 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 6 months, 3 weeks 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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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Trespass by Stephanie Coyne DeGhett 7 months, 2 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 7 months, 2 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 8 months 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 8 months, 3 weeks 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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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Eureka by Bill Bruce 9 months, 2 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 9 months, 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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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Firedamp by Tonja Matney Reynolds 11 months 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 11 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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