SmokeLong Quarterly
An online literary magazine dedicated to flash fiction.
SmokeLong Weekly for July 27, 2017:
All of us are in pieces
by Melissa Goode
A fire gutted the tire factory three streets from our old apartment, where he still lives. It burned for days. The suburb was covered with a thick, gray pall for a week. Tires contain particularly flammable components, he tells me. He lists them. I am slipping away, floating from the cafe and down the street. … Continue reading All of us are in pieces
More stories:
ManateesBy William Todd Seabrook
Night RunBy Monica Lewis
FloodplainBy John Jodzio
Encuentro NocturnoBy Rodolfo Rivas
Shilly-Shallying David Schweidel
273 days before his suicide, Judge Haloran is back on the market Jacqueline Boucher
The Thing With Feathers Sarah Freligh
What Befell Boneyard Zeke James Warner
Our Lady of Lasers Allison Pinkerton
Where the Words Go Tara Campbell
After the Third Notice, the City Shuts Off Our Power Wynne Hungerford
How to be Another Person in Five Days Rebecca Bernard
Lucky Number Six John Haggerty
This Week’s Reader:
Tara Laskowski
Tara Laskowski has been editor at SmokeLong Quarterly since 2010. Her short story collection Bystanders was hailed by Jennifer Egan as "a bold, riveting mash-up of Hitchcockian suspense and campfire-tale chills." She is also the author of Modern Manners For Your Inner Demons, tales of dark etiquette. Her fiction has been published in the Norton anthology Flash Fiction International, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Mid-American Review, and numerous other journals, magazines, and anthologies. Tara lives and works in a suburb of Washington, D.C.
Fridge Flash: Not Going Back
Today’s Fridge Flash is from nine-year-old Ethan. Ethan shares a poignant story about love, loss, and childhood friendships that last a lifetime. By Ethan Hampel Jone was standing outside his house with the pointy roof. Up in the pointy roof was nothing. But he, he didn’t think that was right. His whole house … Continue reading Fridge Flash: Not Going Back
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