Instead of the Glass by Randall Brown art by Ashley Inguanta I shatter her foot, and in the honeymoon pictures she lies in bed, smiling for the camera, her foot raised and ice-wrapped. The wedding picture shows only the tiniest of winces. At one point, it will all come out. It is almost fun, waiting for it. All content in SmokeLong Quarterly copyright 2003-2013 by its authors. Randall Brown is the author of the award-winning flash fiction collection Mad to Live. He directs and teaches at Rosemont College's MFA in Creative Writing Program. He appears in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field and in The Norton Anthology of Hint Fiction. He's also the founder of Matter Press, its online magazine The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and the blog FlashFiction.Net. Ashley Inguanta is an MFA student at the University of Central Florida and teaches two Introduction to Creative Writing classes. She also has worked as a creative writing instructor at Lakeside Alternative, a mental health facility. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Pindeldyboz, Elephant Journal, and All Things Girl. She recently earned an honorable mention in Glimmer Train for their Very Short Fiction Award. Ashley was nominated as UCF's choice for the AWP Intro Journals Award in fiction. 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.