After the Blizzard by Trudy Hale We had warning. A dangerous blizzard sweeps across the eastern United States. Be prepared. The young man stacks firewood on my porch and in the […]

Holding Onto The Past Through Fiction by Virginia Pye What happens to the homes where we once lived? Homes we left behind, in childhood when it wasn’t a choice, as an adult when it was necessary for w […]

So Be It by Tyler Scott Spring. Finally. After several snowstorms, ice, and being stuck in the house for days on end, Louise couldn’t wait to get in her yard. The daffodils h […]

Lisa Macchi: Disrupting the Paint by Russell Hart                        Lisa Macchi took twenty-five years off from art, but now she’s painting Charlottesville red.  Sitting in her McGuffey Art C […]

By Shirley's Side by Peter Wallace The sixty-year-old woman is sleeping at the moment, so I sit on a worn brown couch in the family waiting room down the hall from Shirley. It’s not t […]

Fine Art and Craftsman Alan Box Levine “I’m always having a conversation with myself between art and craft. Art is for the heart and craft for the wallet,” says fine artist and fine craft […]

Cheesecake by Con Chapman Mark didn’t want to go to Jackie and Jonathan’s—he had too much studying to do before the end of the semester—but Marci insisted. “You can’t stu […]

Ho Ho Streetlight by Trudy Hale The season of Christmas swoops in, ahead of me and my best intentions. I’ll never be a person who has all the family and friends crossed off the l […]

What is Happening?!? by Emily Littlewood I used to laugh at my husband and call him old man (he’s nine years older) when he would reminisce on his childhood, and how much better it was than c […]

Puppet and Master by Karris Rae   X/@/20X÷ Today the puppeteer cut my strings. Then he left without a word. It feels strange to move my arms on my own. I opened every plastic p […]

Complicity—A True Fiction Of Now by Erika Raskin Lissy is already dressed, her dolls arranged next to the bed in the space that is sometimes a boat, sometimes a park, and often a doctor’s office. T […]

Grater by Debby Mayer   “There’s something you should know,” was how he would put it. He would say this while she was doing something else—years later, in a Solana B […]

New Photography by Kate Salvi                         “I choose to take photos because I liked the idea of being able to stop time for a mo […]

With a Little Help From My Friends by Trudy Hale In the pre-dawn morning, thirty-six hours before my daughter’s wedding, she enters my bedroom. Her flashlight beam wakes me. Good heavens. Half awake, […]

The Eclectic Photography of William C. Crawford   For many years my photography was travel-based, focusing on ghost towns and other places in glorious decline. Decay and rust attracted me […]

The Taste of Copper Pennies by Tim Collyer Flash Fiction Tim Collyer is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2025 Flash Fiction Contest Career Day smells of bleach and gravy. Wrong and familiar at […]

Night, Night Sleepy Heathen by Erika Raskin So, pretty much every old saw about old age is 100% true. There’s crepitus (the medical onomatopoeia-ous description of creaky joints), and the i […]

A Special Place in Hell by Christine Wilcox Christine Wilcox is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2025 Flash Fiction Contest “I’m not doubting you,” the Angel said to the Demon. “But wh […]

The Wrong Turn On My Career Path, From Which I'm Still Recovering A Quarter Century Later by Erika Raskin Years ago, before I decided to bite the bullet and embrace the soul crushing rejection that often goes with Being A Writer, I decided to try my hand […]