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Spriggan Radfae commented on the post, Cats by Christine Tucker 6 months, 2 weeks ago
I’m surprised this hasn’t happened to me… thank goodness we have a generator! And the oxygen tanks? They won’t pick up extras (“No sir, we were told to pick up 5 and drop off 5.”) But in one year, I had to bury […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Sinking by Deborah Prum I attended a state university that required you to pass a swim test to graduate. I will not mention the name of the institution because I’m a […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Unzipped by Sheri Reynolds Sheri Reynolds is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s Flash Fiction Contest The garbage disposal made a horrible racket, a gritty, g […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 7 months ago
The Big Tent Of Dangerous by Erika Raskin Here’s what the Left—of which I am a dyed in the wool member—needs to understand: many adherents of ‘conspiracy’ theories aren’t crazy. I mean a lot […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Little Vova* by P. W. Bridgman P. W. Bridgman is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s Flash Fiction Contest She told the story about him, but only once. About ho […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 7 months, 3 weeks ago
One August Afternoon by Trudy Hale I am waiting at the Chicken Co-op, pronounced ‘coop,’ inside the Exxon gas station and convenience store in Lovingston, Virginia. A couple of blo […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 8 months, 1 week ago
Special Delivery by Daniel Pié The Widow Lowery would occasionally sleep with Mr. Oshiro. It was, in small-town parlance, a well-kept secret. Certainly, nothing in Mr. […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Flash Fiction Winners – 2023 Judging a flash-fiction contest is like being let loose in a tapas bar—without the discomfort afterwards. This year’s entries did not di […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 9 months ago
A Bridge to Somewhere by Alex Joyner Something there is that doesn’t love a bridge. At least on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Oh, when I lived there, we were proud of the engineering mar […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 9 months, 1 week ago
Water Ice Was The First One by Andrew Snover Here are the two things I can remember that together most starkly display the change. The second one was a plastic cooler piled full of […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 9 months, 2 weeks ago
This Kid by Kathleen McKitty Harris This is me in 1975, with one of my best friends: my grandparents’ dog Sandy. This kid became tough as fuck, even though she was scared to death f […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 10 months ago
Hot Guy From Photography Class by Alice Archer The instant we walk into the next room, which is all photographs—black-and-white rocks casting shadows in a desert, dirty-faced Depression ki […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 10 months, 3 weeks ago
The Pleasure of Ruins by Trudy Hale Not too long ago, I was walking my black lab down Norwood Road when an acquaintance stopped his truck to chat. He said he was concerned about my […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 11 months ago
Allison Moves In by Margie Shepherd Allison did not come to the decision to move in with Gregory lightly. She loved her little apartment, absolutely loved it. It was a source […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Forehand Drive by Amy Foster Myer “How much further down you think it is?” He turned to look at me in the backseat as he drove. Through the front windshield, dark streets I did […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 11 months, 4 weeks ago
I Can't Believe It. I Forgot to Read Jane Austen! by E. H. Jacobs I can’t help thinking about what I haven’t read. Every year, I try to read at least one piece of classic literature that I had overlooked, never got […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year ago
An Audio Book Report And Relevant Field Trip by Erika Raskin I listened (why hold a hefty book aloft when you don’t have to?) to Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions For You and shared the following […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year ago
Bonnie's Spell by Tonja Matney Reynolds Bonnie usually loved the drive to Aunt Edda’s house. She’d peer out the backseat window as her mother drove along the section of highway ove […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 1 month ago
White by Holly Day Once upon a time, there was a woman who wanted to have a baby. Or rather, this woman, named Jane, didn’t particularly care whether she had a baby at t […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 year, 1 month ago
Lowcountry Tragedy by Erika Raskin First off, I’m just going to put right out there that I have been known to watch live courtroom TV like it’s a job, attending to whatever case is […]
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