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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Second Marriage by E. K. Riley
She kept track of what belonged to her and what belonged to him. She felt guilty, but also compelled. The silver coffee spoons were h […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 8 months ago
A Map Of Her Mind By Benjamin Roque
Suddenly Emery stopped walking. He just stood there, a still-life in the afternoon, on a busy sidewalk. The crowd parted around him—one b […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Closet Full of Darlings by Erika Raskin
Lots of people have gotten credit for the literary adage advising writers to kill their darlings. In fact it was Arthur […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Joshua Number Eight by E. Hume Covey
If you could sit totally still for long enough on the big rock by the sycamore, the catfish would peek out tentatively from the hollow u […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 8 months, 3 weeks ago
The Cat Goddess of Apartment 15B by Alex Barr
The back of Bill’s neck smells for some reason of peach and is delightfully warm to my lips. He murmurs something I don’t catch but sounds lik […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 9 months, 1 week ago
The Importance Of Interior Design In Writing by Erika Raskin
The way someone curates their personal space conveys who they are. For a writer, that’s hugely important. “Show, don’t tell” is a guiding […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Waterfall by Jo Riglar
Jo Riglar is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight’s Flash Fiction Contest I reached the waterfall as the rain started. Little vicious drops. A […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Call of the Wild by Trudy Hale
I wanted to write about hunting season here in the rural countryside, the howling packs of dogs, the men and women who sit in muddy trucks on the side […]
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Spriggan Radfae commented on the post, Cats by Christine Tucker 9 months, 3 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 9 months, 4 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 10 months, 1 week 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 10 months, 1 week 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 10 months, 4 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 11 months 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 11 months, 2 weeks 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 12 months 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year, 1 month 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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