SmokeLong Quarterly: The Best of the First Ten Years (2003-2013) SmokeLong Quarterly: The Best of the First Ten Years (2003-2013) Get the Best of the First Ten Years of SmokeLong now! Our print anthology is available at Matter Press, featuring 56 writers and the first 40 issues of SmokeLong Quarterly! ORDER NOW. SmokeLong Weekly PUNK by Claire Rudy Foster, April 21, 2014 Our parents all think we're losers. We're not good enough for them but we're good enough for each other. The music is too loud and we are packed tighter than canned tuna, shoulder against shoulder. Heads moving more or less in rhythm like we're agreeing. Yes, we are the fuck-ups. Yes, we'll disappoint you. Read more. SmokeLong Quarterly Issue Forty-Three (March 24, 2014): We Are Pictures of Ourselves Drinking by Grant Bailie «» Baseball Bat by Chase Burke «» Salvador Dali Eyes by Douglas Campbell «» True, False and Floating by Rijn Collins «» The Part of the Story I Won't Be Telling You by Janet Frishberg «» The Tiny Woman Who Hates You by Megan Giddings «» Womb Viewer by Julienne Grey «» White Guys Are All the Same by Thaddeus Gunn «» Animal by Sarah Herrington «» Come to Pharoah by Matt Marinovich «» Doubles by Stephen Mills «» What You Sold Online by Sarah Moesta «» What We Understand to Be Ghosts by Andy Myers «» Other Damage by Jef Otte «» And Day and Night and After by Adam Peterson «» A Light Kneels by the Gutter by Emma Sovich «» Sparks by Bezalel Stern «» Bred in Captivity by Sonja Vitow «» If There's Any Truth in a Northbound Train by Ryan Werner «» Repeatable Sequence #7 'A Bad Scallop' by Ian Woollen «» Interviews: Grant Bailie «» Chase Burke «» Douglas Campbell «» Rijn Collins «» Janet Frishberg «» Megan Giddings «» Julienne Grey «» Thaddeus Gunn «» Sarah Herrington «» Matt Marinovich «» Stephen Mills «» Sarah Moesta «» Andy Myers «» Jef Otte «» Adam Peterson «» Emma Sovich «» Bezalel Stern «» Sonja Vitow «» Ryan Werner «» Ian Woollen «» Cover Art by Nancy Wartman «» Letter From the Editor--> SmokeLong Feature Artist Spotlight: Alexander C. Kafka January 22, 2014 This is part of an intermittent series of interviews with the artists who illustrate the wonderful stories we publish. Here, art editor Ashley Inguanta chats with Alexander C. Kafka, a photographer, journalist, and composer in Bethesda, Maryland. Read more. Interested in subscribing to SmokeLong's weekly newsletter? Click here. An email should be created. Send it as is, and you'll be subscribed. If the link does not work for you, send an email to imailsrv@smokelong.com with Subscribe slq-info in the body of the email (no subject is necessary). You'll receive updates detailing the release of new issues, new reading periods, contests, etc. We do not make our mail list available to anyone else.