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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 week, 5 days ago
Stolen Summers by Lauren Dunn
I’m sweeping up a pile of sand from the hardwood floor. It’s everywhere. Under each throw mat and area rug. In the corners of the room and hiding ben […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 2 weeks, 2 days ago
We Have Winning Essays by Susan Shafarzek
The annual contest is a big event here at Streetlight’s essay/memoir section. We never know what our invitation is going to bring, but it’s always i […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 month ago
Asa Fowler by Miles Fowler
I am leery of ancestor worship, but the more I research the history of my great-great grandfather, Asa Fowler, the more I find admirable about […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 month ago
Cicadian Rhythm by Quincy Gray McMichael
Quincy Gray McMichael has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest As I stretch my shoulders, arms aloft, t […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Death Reprise by Lauren Dunn
My mom died sometime last year. And it’s funny, I couldn’t tell you exactly when it happened. Well, it’s not so much funny as it is strange. Becau […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Slugger by Walter Lawn
I know a story they left out of her obituary. In the late 1970s and early 80s I worked in the Development Department at The Franklin Institute, the […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 3 months ago
The Grass is Always Greener by Miles Fowler
Growing up in Massachusetts in the 1950s and early 1960s, my schoolmates and I used to watch a children’s television show called Big Brother. At n […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 3 months ago
My Funny Little Valentine by Lucinda Guard
HEART OF GOLD The calendar waves its pages, and announces it’s time for our annual tradition of tapping trees and sugaring. Oh wait: not you! No more […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Rauschenberg Retrospective by Ingrid Jandrewski
Studio by Katy Nicosia. CC license. When we first enter the Robert Rauschenberg retrospective at the Tate Modern, my parents’ eyes brighten as if t […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 4 months ago
The Last Time by Cheryl Somers Aubin
We never know when it will be the last time, do we? If I had known, I would have paid closer attention to the story mom shared about her […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Cockroaches in Coffee Pots by Rebecca Watkins
Rebecca Watkins has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from a troubled dre […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 4 months, 4 weeks ago
The Trivet by Nancy Halgren
Through a dimly lit haze, I see myself in my adult son’s psych ward room, gathering his things into a paper bag so we can check out. I place his c […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Deus Absconditus by Philip Newman Lawton
Philip Newman Lawton has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest My sister Margaret is dead. Her body has gone […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Shoe Story by J. Tara Scott
I LOVE shoes. I have loved shoes for as long as I can remember, but it wasn’t until I became an adult that I had the disposable income to explore what […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 6 months, 1 week ago
The Earth is Round by Karen Dolan
Karen Dolan has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest I had seen the penis on the ultrasound, I knew I was h […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 6 months, 4 weeks ago
The Oppenheimer Retrospective by Katherine Slaughter
Katherine Slaughter has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest Oppenheimer: Back to the Future In the movie […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Thinly Disguised Autobiography by Miles Fowler
By the time I reached my teens, I was taken with the idea of writing a fictionalized autobiography, but as my college roommate, Barry, observed, no […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Tongues of Fire by Sandra Hopkins
Sandra Hopkins is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest How did my grandpa, Papa Hop, know that it would be […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Blindsided by Jeanne Malmgren
Jeanne Malmgren is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest This should be a quick in-and-out, I’m thinking. As we wa […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Stop Shivering by Avery Roche
Avery Roche is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest Pain. This is a word I am intimately familiar with. In fact, it […]
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