Sinking by Deborah Prum I attended a state university that required you to pass a swim test to graduate. I will not mention the name of the institution because I’m a […]

Unzipped by Sheri Reynolds   Sheri Reynolds is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s Flash Fiction Contest The garbage disposal made a horrible racket, a gritty, g […]

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 […]

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 […]

Photographer Russell Hart As I Found It: My Mother’s House     Sometimes I envy my baby-boomer friends for having lost their parents quickly. Mine left this life p […]

One August Afternoon by Trudy Hale I am waiting at the Chicken Co-op, pronounced ‘coop,’ inside the Exxon gas station and convenience store in Lovingston, Virginia. A couple of blo […]

Michael Powers: Honorable Mention in Streetlight's 2023 Art Contest     Streetlight: When did you become interested in art? Michael Powers: I have had an interest in artist expression from a very early a […]

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. […]

2023 Art Contest Winner Shows at Chroma Gallery Until August 26     Emma Knight’s imaginary gardens and landscapes picture magical worlds of color and exotic plants in mysterious, lush settings. They evo […]

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 […]

A Bridge to Somewhere by Alex Joyner Something there is that doesn’t love a bridge. At least on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Oh, when I lived there, we were proud of the engineering mar […]

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 […]

New Work by Edward Michael Supranowicz   I grew up studying and using traditional methods and materials in painting, printmaking, and drawing, learning the characteristics and […]

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 […]

Winners of 2023 Art Search Contest     This year’s Art Search Contest drew from a pool of talented artists far and wide. Their works included handsome photographs and l […]

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 […]

The Photography of Margo Hamilton and Ron Evans     Margo Hamilton and Ron Evans share a studio and a passion for photography. At their studio at the McGuffey Arts Center in C […]

The Pleasure of Ruins by Trudy Hale Not too long ago, I was walking my black lab down Norwood Road when an acquaintance stopped his truck to chat. He said he was concerned about my […]

Susan Northington Looks to the Horizon     The horizon line has long been a source of inspiration for landscape artist Susan Haley Northington. She remembers growing up in S […]