cover art "Male Figure" 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 Letter From the Editor Smoking With Claudia Smith David Barringer The Cockroach Matt Briggs Trestle Aaron Burch Worried & Wondering Kate Hill Cantrill Dead Dog Rising Chanel Earl Tinder Utahna Faith Scrape Stefanie Freele Arlo's Big Head Vanessa Gebbie Wei-Ch'i Katherine Grosjean Last Fall Savannah Schroll Guz David Dreams of Australopithecines Jenny Halper The Last Stop Stephanie Harrison Blue Tiff Holland Cadet Liesl Jobson Slam Darlin' Neal Beret Elizabeth Oliver Camp Patricia Parkinson We Nik Perring Seconds Are Ticking By Sue Powers Brother Sophie Rosenblum Carol Glenn Shaheen Elizabeth Bishop Gail Siegel Favorites Michelle Tandoc-Pichereau Blank Girija Tropp Medicinal