Streetlight Voices: Short Fiction & Memoir

Down and out and on the brink of even worse.

When a woman faces the loss of a beloved, aging pet, she finds herself confronting her own experience with age and death.

A man's loss of a role on his bowling team means more to him than even he realizes.

A young woman faces the most difficult of decisions.

A family's trip to the beach becomes a metaphor for colonialism, gentrification and class struggle.

Marital and family duties constrict the life of a matriarch who contemplates change in her latter years.

Try to laugh about it, but not even a personal crisis will cancel tonight's dinner plan.

Three friends are reminded that youth does not confer invincibility.

In the hotel where Janis Joplin died, a young desk clerk makes a choice that turns a guest's tragedy into a fresh start on life.

A father coping with a loss to the family becomes a powerful memory for his son.

A woman takes a shortcut through a back alley where she finds both tragedy and revenge. TRIGGER WARNING: rape

A young girl and her brother experience a miracle of nature that later becomes a lesson for life.

Ever feel like one half of your brain is taking over? It's all a farce. A short story read by Jennifer Sims for Streetlight Magazine.

An aging woman twines her past memories with the present. A short story read by Jennifer Sims for Streetlight Magazine.

A young girl describes a family vacation to Cuba in the 1950's interrupted by a historic moment.

Lena copes with a devastating loss that has fractured her family. A short story read by Jennifer Sims for Streetlight Magazine.

Jenna-Marie Warnecke's "The Ones Who Stay". A short story read by Jennifer Sims for Streetlight Magazine. Isolation and the need for connection in the empty, sweltering streets of Paris.