"Disillusionment and Metamorphosis" 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 Seven Letter From the Editor Randall Brown Being Frank Scott Ford Axl Rose Is My Dog M. Lynx Qualey Falling Saundra Mitchell Revival Season Grant Bailie Noises Steve Dunn Head Case Gary Cadwallader Aluminum Paul A. Toth Tornadoes Ann Walters Cracks Judd Hampton Three-Second Angels Rusty Barnes Love and Murder Bob Thurber Not The Real Jesus Christ Alexandra Fox Three Blind Elephants Met a Man James Devitt Whitman Waits Along the Road for Lincoln to Pass Tom Jackson All Over Again Roderick Leyland The Colour of Slate Andrew Bomback Salt David H. S. Hubert The Road to a Place I Did Not Know