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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Big Tent Of Dangerous by Erika Raskin Here’s what the Left—of which I am a dyed in the wool member—needs to understand: many adherents of ‘conspiracy’ theories aren’t crazy. I mean a lot […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 8 months ago
Little Vova* by P. W. Bridgman P. W. Bridgman is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s Flash Fiction Contest She told the story about him, but only once. About ho […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Special Delivery by Daniel Pié The Widow Lowery would occasionally sleep with Mr. Oshiro. It was, in small-town parlance, a well-kept secret. Certainly, nothing in Mr. […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 9 months, 1 week ago
Flash Fiction Winners – 2023 Judging a flash-fiction contest is like being let loose in a tapas bar—without the discomfort afterwards. This year’s entries did not di […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Water Ice Was The First One by Andrew Snover Here are the two things I can remember that together most starkly display the change. The second one was a plastic cooler piled full of […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 10 months ago
This Kid by Kathleen McKitty Harris This is me in 1975, with one of my best friends: my grandparents’ dog Sandy. This kid became tough as fuck, even though she was scared to death f […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Hot Guy From Photography Class by Alice Archer The instant we walk into the next room, which is all photographs—black-and-white rocks casting shadows in a desert, dirty-faced Depression ki […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Allison Moves In by Margie Shepherd Allison did not come to the decision to move in with Gregory lightly. She loved her little apartment, absolutely loved it. It was a source […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year ago
Forehand Drive by Amy Foster Myer “How much further down you think it is?” He turned to look at me in the backseat as he drove. Through the front windshield, dark streets I did […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year ago
An Audio Book Report And Relevant Field Trip by Erika Raskin I listened (why hold a hefty book aloft when you don’t have to?) to Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions For You and shared the following […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year ago
Bonnie's Spell by Tonja Matney Reynolds Bonnie usually loved the drive to Aunt Edda’s house. She’d peer out the backseat window as her mother drove along the section of highway ove […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 1 month ago
White by Holly Day Once upon a time, there was a woman who wanted to have a baby. Or rather, this woman, named Jane, didn’t particularly care whether she had a baby at t […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 1 month ago
Lowcountry Tragedy by Erika Raskin First off, I’m just going to put right out there that I have been known to watch live courtroom TV like it’s a job, attending to whatever case is […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 2 months ago
Stay In Your Own Lane by Erika Raskin The back of my old CRV is adorned with a nearly forty year-old license plate (you can still read it if you squint in a certain light) and three […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 2 months ago
Put Some Meat On Their Bones by Erika Raskin I once wrote a piece for Publisher’s Weekly about how even people who are terminally disorganized can craft novels. I offered a five-step […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 3 months ago
wish by Harry James The morning sun dappled the kitchen wall with an outline of wind-fumbled leaves loosely hanging on trees, cooking in the early morning heat. On […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 3 months ago
Duck Blind by Regina Guarino Across the narrow alley way between row houses, where trash cans totter and feral cats loiter, a window opens onto the neighbors’ kitchen. For o […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 4 months ago
Immersed by Caroline Kahlenberg People will say it was suicide, but you mustn’t believe them. They’ll say I looked normal at first, a tall woman with long black hair […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months ago
It’s not hard to sneak into the Manhattan Exclusion zone if you know what you’re doing. The Coast Guard mostly looks for the guys who don’t know what they’re doing—the ones who rush past Spuyten Du […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months ago
I’ve held season tickets on the fifty-yard line of health care for a long time, watching in alternating awe and horror at how medical interventions are provided. In the gratitude/wonder department, […]
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