cover art "View From the Lincoln Bedroom" 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 Twenty-Seven James Tadd Adcox Four Disconnected Truths about My Father Grant Bailie I Am Born Martin Cloutier Americano Mens Emily Darrell On Becoming a Bird Peter DeMarco Vacation Ryan Dilbert Imagines He's a Bear S. H. Gall Heavenward Amie Hartman Bowling For Dollars Tara Laskowski When the Cicadas Come David Lindsay Love and Destruction in a '67 El Dorado Sean Lovelace To the Women in Line at the Walgreens Pharmacy Dennis Mahagin Greenback Fly Andrew McIntosh Arecibo Gary Moshimer My Friend Jefferson Navicky Elstor Alec Niedenthal Winter Glen Pourciau Fork Andrew Roe Stalling Curtis Smith The Runner Scott Stealey Unicorns Brandi Wells Orbit