cover art "The Creation of Time and the Plagiarism of Bosch" Marty D. Ison Our Mission: SmokeLong Quarterly is dedicated to bringing the best flash fiction to the web on a quarterly basis, whether written by widely published authors, or those new to the craft. The term "smoke-long" comes from the Chinese, who noted that reading a piece of flash takes about the same length of time as smoking a cigarette. All the work we publish is precisely that—about a smoke long. Issue Ten Letter From the Editor Smoking with Joseph Young Anne Marie Jackson Capsicum Bruce Holland Rogers Donat Bobet's Halloween Nathan Leslie The Arrival Edgar Omar Avilés translated by Toshiya A. Kamei The Law Jeff Landon Five Fat Men in a Hot Tub Cally Taylor Hoover Joshua Hampel Are You Okay? Otis Brown The Kindness of Strangers Kuzhali Manickavel Mrs. Krishnan William Reese Hamilton Crossing the Orinoco Laura Stallard Petza The Elements of Summer Patti Jazanoski Closer to Paul Nance Knauer Hawesville, Kentucky Astrid Schott He Stayed for Breakfast Antonios Maltezos Gardening Tom Saunders Outer Space Robert Bradley Blind Love Alan Girling Arks Bob Arter Chitlins Suzanne Lafetra Strange Fruit