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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, The Wounded Warrior of East Boston Terrace by Cyndy Muscatel 2 weeks, 3 days ago
I have a scar under my chin, right at the end where it meets the jaw. You can’t see it unless I’m hanging upside down, which is a rare occurrence these days. I’d forgotten about it—hadn’t seen or touched its rough […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, A Room Called Remember by Mary McCue 1 month, 1 week ago
The sound of rustling leaves, like old fashioned petticoats, soothed the cold lodged like a stone above my brow. Compliant for once to the vagaries of my body, I stretched out on the floor letting my mind […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, The Trees Are a Better Mother by Genevra Levinson 2 months ago
Genevra Levinson is an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2020 Essay/Memoir Contest
It is autumn. I think of Mary Oliver’s river of loss as I watch the trees burn fragrantly and allow themselves to be naked in t […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, Stripping by Vicky Oliver 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Vicky Oliver is an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2020 Essay/Memoir Contest
It was an orgy of silk and satin and velvet. Twenty cocktail dresses sprawled on my floor, all temptresses still in their peak, […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, Finding Barbie's Shoes by J Brooke 3 months, 2 weeks ago
J Brooke is an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2020 Essay/Memoir Contest
There were many reasons I didn’t play with Barbie dolls. Besides being gender-nonconforming before the term existed, besides not l […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, Turner and Bobby by Debra King 3 months, 3 weeks ago
When I was a toddler, I named my hands “Turner” and “Bobby.” Turner was my dominant right hand, the one used to access closed doors and cupboards. My parents say I blamed “Turner” when I spilled a glass of mi […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, A Sign by Carol Jeffers 4 months, 1 week ago
Carol Jeffers is an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2020 Essay/Memoir Contest
“Stephanie wanted you to have her eyes,” her sister Susie said. “Please say you’ll take them.” That was in 2018, the second ti […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, Turmoil and Languor: Messing Up the Quiet, Nancy Zafris Interviews Karin Cecile Davidson 4 months, 2 weeks ago
The following is a conversation with Karin Cecile Davidson, whose first novel, Sybelia Drive, is being published this fall by Braddock Avenue Books (October 6th).
Sybelia Drive is a Vietnam-era novel that tells […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, Another Day by Cheryl Aubin 5 months ago
Toward the evening of the night I thought my mother was dying, the aide, who stayed with mom during the day, told me mom had been asleep for twenty-four hours and would not wake up. She sent me a picture of my […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, Troubling the Fields by Mary Alice Hostetter 5 months, 1 week ago
Mary Alice Hostetter is an Honorable Mention in Streetlight Magazine’s 2020 Essay/Memoir Contest
The first thing I noticed was the sign. My mother and I were driving back from getting corn meal at the mill, and […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, More News of Good Writing—Essay Honorable Mentions 2020 5 months, 1 week ago
When we held our essay/memoir contest last spring, we had such a wealth of wonderful entries, it was very hard to pick the winners. I think we did a good job—certainly the best we could—but in the process we […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, Stealing Light by Billie Hinton 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Billie Hinton is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight Magazine’s 2020 Essay/Memoir Contest
I’m holding the reins of a twelve-hand half-Shetland pony when I get the call. My daughter hops into the saddle, I r […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, Beautiful Monster by Amy Stonestrom 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Amy Stonestrom is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight Magazine’s 2020 Essay/Memoir Contest
A strange February morning, gray sky lined with tangerine. Ten degrees. From my spot in the front seat, bursts of flame […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, Plight of the Humble Bee by Richard Key 7 months, 1 week ago
Richard Key is the 1st place winner of Streetlight Magazine’s 2020 Essay/Memoir Contest
Honeybees are swarming outside my home office under the eaves of the roofline. I would say they are hovering like tiny […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, The Silence is Deafening by Benjamin Rempel 7 months, 2 weeks ago
When self-isolation measures were first enacted, five-year-old Vivian seemed excited about the whole thing. A new experience, unique to this time and place. She was playing with her mom, she yelled from her porch, […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, The Stairway by Thomas Laver 8 months ago
The visit was long overdue. At my wife Margie’s suggestion, I decided to do something about it.
So, on a summer day that was forehead-dripping hot with a steely blue sky, the two of us strolled in shorts and s […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, A Birth by Jess Williams 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Daniel and I had done a lot of preparation for labor, I thought, but I never considered that it would start during the night.
I had pictured it many times and it was exclusively a daytime event. In fact, it […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, Full Circle by A.R. Bender 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Not long ago, I walked along a rustic road that wound its way through a thickly forested area, taking in the sounds and sights of nature. Eventually the growth of trees thinned out and I came upon a somewhat […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, We Have Winners, We Do 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Just as we were hunkering down in the midst of this global emergency, we received the last dozen or so entries for the 2020 Streetlight Essay/Memoir contest. That was a happy distraction! And this is too.
None […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, Side Effects by Philip Lawton 10 months, 1 week ago
The day before I turned 40, a Sunday toward the end of the merry month, we went for a drive from our home in West Hartford to the town of Litchfield, Connecticut. I was at the wheel, my wife navigating, our […]
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