cover art "Out with the OLD and in with the NEW OLD" 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 Twelve Letter From the Editor Smoking with Kathy Fish Announcing the Kathy Fish Fellowship Gary Cadwallader Voodoo Myfanwy Collins Prey Sarah Leavitt The Rest of Your Life Robert Lopez Mice Getting the Points Antonios Maltezos The Cellist Mary Miller Rain or Shine Tristan Moss Knowing Love Chivas Sandage Shrapnel Tom Saunders Blessed Paul Silverman Ally's First Step Andrew Tibbetts Everybody in Holland Is Mad at Me Ania Vesenny Friendship/Love Joseph Young The Work Week Jamie Zerndt Bungee Jump