Daniel Lowe is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight‘s 2026 Flash Fiction Contest The river fog clears and rises, and for a few moments the tops of the city’s tallest buildings seem suspended in air. From your perch on the hillside, their windows are portals of white light, like eyes with cataracts reflecting a brilliant sun. Cloud cities exist only in fantasy, fairytale worlds of imagination now overtaken by video, and anyway, you gave up all fantasy other than the sexual kind the day you entered puberty. Perhaps it was a day like this one, a cool … Continue reading Mosaic by Daniel Lowe →