SmokeLong Weekly A Madness by Katy Gunn, February 6, 2012 Sometime during their fourth year in the one-bedroom apartment, the women had created a madness. They first saw it in September, peeking out from the cabinet under their sink, but it seemed to have been growing for some time. Neither of the women knew for sure that the other had seen it, and they each hoped the other had not. They tried to ignore it at first, humming or running water as they applied their make-up or brushed their teeth, each afraid the other would hear its scratching and they would have to open the cabinet and see it in full view. When it became clear to each woman that the other had seen it, Ruth Ann began halfheartedly joking about the lax landlord and Ira mentioned sewer rats. Read more. SmokeLong Quarterly Issue Thirty-Four (December 19, 2011): Batman #12 by Barr Bielinski «» The Normal Thing by Mickey Laurence Cohen «» Gray Dogs by Chauna Craig «» Xenoliths by Joseph Gross «» The Fifth Way of Wearing Vermillion by Kathleen Hellen «» Out of Many by Anne Hensley «» Bus Driver by Alex Higley «» Zong by Emily-Jo Hopson «» The Worst Shark Attack Ever by Trevor Houser «» A Disagreement between Gentleman Hunters by Geoff Kronik «» Squall by Susan Rukeyser «» Master of the Art of Longrange Tenpins by Fortunato Salazar «» One Truth by Curtis Smith «» Running by R.S. Thomas «» The Freeze by Virgie Townsend «» Broken Bow by Lex Williford «» Interviews: Barr Bielinski «» Mickey Laurence Cohen «» Chauna Craig «» Joseph Gross «» Kathleen Hellen «» Anne Hensley «» Alex Higley «» Emily-Jo Hopson «» Trevor Houser «» Geoff Kronik «» Susan Rukeyser «» Curtis Smith «» R.S. Thomas «» Virgie Townsend «» Lex Williford «» Cover Art "Warhol's Appropriated Soup" by Marty Ison «» Letter From the Editor This Week's Reader Ed Bull is a graduate of the University of Central Florida’s MFA program, where he was managing editor of The Florida Review. He currently resides in Atlanta, GA. His fiction and non-fiction stories have appeared most recently in Zone 3, The Good Men Project, Etude, Redivider, and Burrow Press’s Florida writers anthology Fragmentation & Other Stories. His publications can be found through his website, www.edbull.net. He will read stories submitted to SmokeLong February 6-12. Submit. SmokeLong Feature Smoking with Justin Chen January 27, 2012 This is part of an intermittent series of interviews with the artists who illustrate the wonderful stories we publish. Read more. 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.