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SmokeLong Quarterly

SmokeLong Quarterly has been dedicated to publishing the best flash narratives since 2003.

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Issue Ninety

December 2025

From the Editor

I have so much to tell you. Issue 90 is a double issue with 17 pieces of flash brilliance. Thank you to everyone who lent a hand in getting this issue done. To the submissions editors, Circuit Trainers from SmokeLong Fitness, the creative writing classes and their instructors who read the submissions queue, thank you… Continue reading New Front (continue reading)

Smokelong Quarterly Issue Ninety

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The March Micro Marathon 2026
Book by February 20th!

We’re doing it again! SmokeLong’s March Micro Marathon has been the wildest romp of prompts we’ve ever done. Last year 170 participants drafted more than 3000 micros, and this naturally led to many publications, each one eligible to win The SmokeLong Workshop Prize. The peer-review workshop of The March Micro Marathon will be March 2-25,… Continue reading The March Micro Marathon 2026
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Issue Three

Fairly recently, a friend told me I have a luminous smile, that she didn’t see it often, but when she did, it lit the place up. Know when that happens? When I’m talking about SmokeLong, and all the amazing authors we’ve had the pleasure of publishing. (And lest the previous sound egotistical, my therapist (how… Continue reading Issue Three

Featuring stories by: Rebecca Marshall-CourtoisEllen MeisterJohn MantoothJayne PupekBunny GoodjohnRhonda BeltGary CadwalladerMaryanne StahlBrandon HobsonEllen ParkerPatti WeisgerberTerry DeHartBrian GaolorWayne ScheerAaron McQuistonLouise JacksonJane SalesJeff LandonTom SheehanDJ McDougle

Christopher Lee Chilton

Christopher Lee Chilton lives and teaches in New York. His work has appeared in A Public Space, The Masters Review, The Penn Review, South Carolina Review, Oyster River Pages, and elsewhere.

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