cover art "Wall Street Must Be Tripping" 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-Eight Letter From the Editor Steve Almond Young Waitresses Matt Baker Frank Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf The Life and Times of Dmitri Kulikov Thomas Cooper Scapegoat Craig Davis What You Could Catch Me Bumping Gay Degani Complicit John Mark DeMoss What You See When You Think of Home Murray Dunlap In the Attic Jen Gann A Flower Thing Molly Giles Seahorse Sex Kyle Hemmings Gertie Ann Hillesland Vertigo Stephanie Johnson Rock David LaBounty A Shot of Whatever Paul Liscicky Palo Alto Michelle McMahon The Lake House Emily McPhillips Hell Is a Headline Wendy Oleson How I Liked the Avocados Bridget Pelkie Regrets Michelle Reale What Passes for Normal Joseph Scapellato Avalanche Laura Ellen Scott Last Seen Leaving Nancy Stebbins A Fistful of Buttercups Sabrina Stoessinger Explicable Eugenia F. Tsutsumi My Maggie Russell Whitaker The Ghost xTx The Strain of Collusion Interested in subscribing to SmokeLong's weekly newsletter? Click here. An email should be created. Send it as is, and you'll be subscribed. If the link does not work for you, send an email to imailsrv@smokelong.com with Subscribe slq-info in the body of the email (no subject is necessary). You'll receive updates detailing the release of new issues, new reading periods, contests, etc. We do not make our mail list available to anyone else.