SmokeLong Quarterly
An online literary magazine dedicated to flash fiction.
SmokeLong Weekly for May 26, 2018:
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Two Truths and One Lie About Marian ‘Lady Tyger’ Trimiar, Former Women’s Lightweight Champion of the World
by Annie Bilancini
1. Lady Tyger trained seven days a week in the months leading up to her unofficial debut match at Washington Heights’ Audubon Ballroom in 1974. The fight wasn’t legal—not with two women in the ring—but she sparred anyway. When she trained, she boxed with whoever showed up at the gym. The men who challenged her … Continue reading FROM THE ARCHIVES: Two Truths and One Lie About Marian ‘Lady Tyger’ Trimiar, Former Women’s Lightweight Champion of the World
More stories:
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Girls, Girls, GirlsBy Shannon Barber
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Belly of a FishBy Rachel Mangini
FROM THE ARCHIVES: RecessBy Adam Peterson
FROM THE ARCHIVES: MetallicBy Ellen Parker
A Thin Sliver of Her Heart Kelly Barnhill
The Sky Is Just Another Neighborhood Lori Sambol Brody
Our Black Comedy Elisabeth Ingram Wallace
Watch, Watching Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor
The Noises from the Neighbors Upstairs: A Nightly Log Amber Sparks
August 10, 2016 Michael Sarinsky
Aftershave and Soil Leonora Desar
This Week’s Reader:
Nickalus Rupert
Nickalus Rupert spent most of his life near the Gulf Coast of Florida. In 2015, he completed an MFA fellowship at the University of Central Florida. Currently, he is a PhD student at the University of Southern Mississippi and a former associate editor of Mississippi Review. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Harpur Palate, Slice Magazine, The Literary Review, Pleiades, Tin House Online, Sonora Review Online, and other journals. Currently, he is at work on Giants of the False Desert, a novel.
Review: No Other Form but This: Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story
By Cheryl Pappas In what other form can you find a story about old men floating up in the air, or a narrator’s deep dive into the word “glyph” as a way of coming to grips with the end of a love affair? I found myself ever grateful for the flexibility of the flash … Continue reading Review: No Other Form but This: Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story
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