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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ian, Who Lives on the Mountain Overlooking the City Where He Works by John Brantingham On a foggy dawn like this, at the edge of the cliff, at the edge of winter when the wind is blowing through the forest, all the ice chips […]

Flowers by William Cass   As I marked another donation box I’d filled with my son’s trach supplies, the doorbell rang. Two men in identical ball caps and polo shir […]

In Other Words by Elizabeth Meade Howard   Remember letters? Ones that came in the mail with stamps and occasional foreign postmarks? Remember that moment of anticipation before […]