"Self-Portrait" 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 Eight Letter From the Editor Ira Socol The Lenten Diaries Daphne Buter He Wrote Sixteen Pencils Empty Tomi Shaw Deer Season Grant Bailie Pastoral Peggy M. Price Nothing I Say Elspeth Graty Jelly Babies Terry DeHart The Strength of Glass Donna Gagnon Days of Bargaining Christian Bell Sashimi Peter Vaudry-Brown Northwest Mourning John McCaffrey Frost Fish Henry Presente Something To Chew On Cami Park Phase Changes Roderick Leyland Getting the Message Tiff Holland Running Water Frank Haberle He Pulled Me From The Sea