Issue Fifty-Two

June 2016

From the Editor

A quick note before I talk about this issue’s amazing stories and content. Recently SmokeLong was made aware that some of our authors had their stories stolen by B. Mitchell Cator, whose collection of stories and novel included large sections of plagiarized text. C.R. Park’s story “I Can’t Talk About Butter Because Margarine Is All… Continue reading Issue Fifty-Two

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How Do You Do, Boise? Casey Quinn(Read author interview)
Sometimes My Father Comes Back from the Dead Steve Edwards(Read author interview)
Several Repurposed Pictorials Karen Donovan(Read author interview)
Tabloid Dinah Cox(Read author interview)
A Moving Target Crissie McMullan(Read author interview)
Make-Believe Shasta Grant(Read author interview)
My Friend Diane Emily Flouton(Read author interview)
Time Has No Essence John Riley(Read author interview)
Cravat Rosanne Scott(Read author interview)
Medusa at 13 Maggie Nye(Read author interview)
White Buffalo Woman Stacy Trautwein Burns(Read author interview)
Storage Melissa Scholes Young(Read author interview)
An Old Woman with Silver Hands A.A. Balaskovits(Read author interview)
Prismatic Eileen Merriman(Read author interview)
Surge and Recede Remy Barnes(Read author interview)
The Tale End Susan Kim Campbell(Read author interview)
Pearls Nicole Hebdon(Read author interview)
I’d Botch Data for You Kelsey Wiora(Read author interview)
Summer Baby Anne Elizabeth Weisgerber(Read author interview)
Little Harlot Nancy Au(Read author interview)
Swallowed Dana Diehl(Read author interview)

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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest

Deadline November 15th!

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.

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