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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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Issue Fourteen

I suspect that many of you are not only readers of flash fiction, but also writers. And if you’re like me, you had an epiphany somewhere along the way, something along the lines of, “I can do this? This is allowed?” From the first time I laid pen to paper with the intention of writing… Continue reading Issue Fourteen

Featuring stories by: CB AndersonMark BudmanStace BudzkoRobert EarleUtahna FaithSherrie FlickR. L. FutrellDavid GalefBayard GodsaveTom HazukaJennifer A. HowardG.A. IngersollKit Coyne IrwinBarbara JackshaJohn McCaffreyPeter MehlmanChristopher MerrillStacey RichterBruce Holland RogersRobert ShapardJ. David StevensErsi SotiropoulosMelanie Rae ThonKatharine WeberKathleen Wheaton

Claire Y. Guo

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Claire Y. Guo

Claire Y. Guo is a fiction writer and poet based in San Jose, California. She is an alumna of the Adroit Summer Mentorship Program. Her writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, published in SmokeLong Quarterly, Trampset, Fractured Lit, The National Poetry Quarterly, and has been recognized by Forge Literary Magazine and the Adroit Prize for Prose. When she’s not editing, she loves to collect fountain pens and funny words (like kerfuffle).

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