cover art "The Creation of Time and the Plagiarism of Bosch" by 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 Eleven Letter From the Editor Smoking with Myfanwy Collins Smoking with Marty D. Ison Eve Abrams Forks in the Road Greg Ames Retirement Home Edgar Omar Avilés translated by Toshiya A. Kamei A Drop of Dew Rusty Barnes No One Left to Care About the Fat Man Theresa Boyar The Mother's Guide to Flight Patterns Nadine Darling It's All True Katrina Denza What She Gave to the Sea Patry Francis It Laurie Frankel Cemetery Day Judd Hampton Cityscape Niranjana Iyer The Black Squirrels of Ottawa Beverly A. Jackson Diagnosis Erica Plouffe Lazure Green Monster Mary McCluskey Sophie, Now Mary Miller A Blind Dog Named Killer and a Colony of Bees Claudia Smith The Sky Is a Well Elizabeth Smith You Only Get One Chance to Be El Latigo Jim Tomlinson Flights Girija Tropp Song of Giants Joseph Young Ice