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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 4 months ago
5 Writing Pitfalls To Avoid by Erika Raskin
1. Losing The Plot Think of being unable to tell someone what your work-in-progress is about as a seriously suspicious mole; a flashing warning […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 4 months, 1 week ago
A Matter Of Time by Janis Jaquith
Fiction is the lie that tells the truth. The truth is that there was a fire, six people died, and it was intentionally set. The spirit of Lisa […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 4 months, 1 week ago
For Albemarle’s Sam Abell, Photographs Come from Within. By Russell Hart
The first thing Sam Abell entreats his workshop students to do is imagine their photographs without a primary subject. “I cover up the su […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Last Words by Caroline Malone
I should have turned on the porch light, but the bulb is dead, I said, I had to leave her alone in the bathroom so I could stand outside and watch for […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 4 months, 4 weeks ago
2024 Flash Fiction Contest by Erika Raskin
Once again, we had the opportunity to read a (virtual) stack of flash fiction pieces that have enlarged our worlds—and we are grateful. As us […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 months ago
Tips For Aging Women by Christine McDowell Tucker
Let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that you’re considering getting old. We don’t recommend this course of action, of course, because the risks […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 months, 1 week ago
Downstairs by Gary Duehr
What’s happening to me? Downstairs I can hear my wife Ann with our two-year-old Isabella, their sounds bubbling up from the kitchen. The […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 5 months, 1 week ago
The (Very Uncomfortable) Art of Letting Go: When Movers Lose All Your Furniture by Katie Wilkes
“Your new life is gonna cost you your old one.” —Margot Berman I forget if it was around the time of a full moon or another supercharged energy p […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Writing For A Generation by Joel F. Johnson
We write for a target audience. Readers differ in their demographics as well as their literary tastes. When my novel, Never, was published, I began […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Writing Through Autocracy by Karol Lagodzki
The one and only time I put a knife in my pocket heading out to church was on Sunday, December 13, 1981. My mother, a single parent, was […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 6 months ago
A Stone by Debbie Bennett
It was a flat grey stone, the kind you found in tourist shops, with pre-set words. What a strange gift from Andrea, I’d thought, and plunked it into m […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 6 months ago
The Sculpted Paintings of Brooke Major
At three, Brooke Major picked up a paint brush and rode her first horse. Her path was set. “My grandfather had riding stables and I fell in lo […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 6 months, 1 week ago
Once Upon A Memoir by Trudy Hale
I am in an abusive relationship again. This morning was the first time it occurred to me to label it as such. Not a lover or husband, or friend, but […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Birthday Boys by Will Underland
When he woke it was with awareness that it was his birthday and thus with an ebullience lacking on most other days when waking and rising were […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Cristina's Pop Art
Cristina is an artist with an eye to humor, the ironic and social commentary. She started creating art for fun at the age of six, painting […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 7 months, 1 week ago
The Photography of Leah Oates and Max St-Jacques
This mother and son have more than most in common; Leah Oates and son Maximilien St-Jacques share a passion for photography.Oates’s grandfather was a […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 7 months, 1 week ago
The Secrets We Kept in Our Condo Association by I. S. Berry
It’s hard to know when it started—the hollow feeling when I entered my building. The unease as I unlocked the front door, like I was entering a str […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 8 months ago
Mimm Patterson Wins Streetlight's 2024 Art Contest
Mimm Patterson is the Winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Art Contest Among the submissions that we received for the Streetlight Art Contest, Mimm […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 8 months ago
Candy Apple Smile by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos
Kat’s portrait tilted on Wendy’s dresser festooned with effulgent skyscrapers: birds of paradise and stargazers. A spent cork from a New Year […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 8 months, 1 week ago
Where'd The Idea For That Come From? by Erika Raskin
Writers write. Worriers worry. I am quite adept at doing both. You know, simultaneously. I penned my first book, Close, while partaking in a […]
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