"Lady Considers" by Robert Dornberg 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 Three Letter From the Editor Rebecca Marshall-Courtois The Lunchbox Ellen Meister Does It Please You? John Mantooth The Last Summer Jayne Pupek Black Mollies Bunny Goodjohn Mille Fleur Rhonda Belt Holy Water Gary Cadwallader Jewel Maryanne Stahl Fog Brandon Hobson The Floating Ellen Parker Metallic Patti Weisgerber The Beekman Hill Window Box Contest Brian Gaolor Raptus Brisk Terry DeHart Salinger Pays Caulfield a Visit Wayne Scheer The Circle of His Arms Aaron McQuiston Streetlights in Rome Louise Jackson Tea and Biscuits Jane Sales Mere Oblivion Jeff Landon Thirty-Nine Years of Carrie Wallace Tom Sheehan The Old Man Who Made Whistles DJ McDougle For Rent