Alan Orloff’s debut mystery, Diamonds for the Dead, was a 2010 Agatha Award Finalist for Best First Novel. He’s written two books in the Last Laff mystery series, Killer Routine and Deadly Campaign, and writing as his darker half Zak Allen, he’s published three books: The Taste, First Time Killer, and Ride-Along. His latest novel, Running from the Past, will be released later this month from Kindle Press (via the Kindle Scout program). He will read stories submitted to SmokeLong December 8-14.
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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online.
The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatically nominated for Best Small Fictions and any other prize we deem appropriate. In addition, we will pay the grand prize winner $1000. Second place: $500. Third place $300. Finalists: $100. All finalists and placers will be published in the December ’25 issue of SmokeLong.
Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.