Issue Forty

June 2013

From the Editor

Much good fiction is about the journey, the quest—where the characters often learn more from the process itself than they do once they get where they were going in the first place. SmokeLong Quarterly has itself had a significant journey. With this issue, the 40th issue, SmokeLong has been around for 10 years. Ten years!… Continue reading Issue Forty

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Recess Adam Peterson(Read author interview)
On Conplexity in General and Consequential in Particular Ahimaaz Rajesh(Read author interview)
The Woodcutter’s Wife Ben Black(Read author interview)
The Empty Road Christopher James(Read author interview)
On Behalf of the Class Elissa Cahn(Read author interview)
Hiding Frances Badgett(Read author interview)
Dodge Jason Shults(Read author interview)
Everyone in Cities Jon Chaiim McConnell(Read author interview)
Shadow Joseph Michaels(Read author interview)
Hard to Carry and Fit in a Trunk Jules Archer(Read author interview)
Jimmy Wasabi, Juan Juan and the Toaster Oven Kelle Groom(Read author interview)
What Manner of Triumph Leslie Jill Patterson(Read author interview)
Match Game Seventy Blank Matt Sailor(Read author interview)
Be Excellent to One Another Megan Giddings(Read author interview)
How Things Have Actually Changed Since We Did Secede from the United States Ron Carlson(Read author interview)
Road Trip Sherrie Flick(Read author interview)
Kim Kardashian Considers Her Insomnia Steve Almond(Read author interview)
PTSD Terence Lane(Read author interview)
Chew Venita Blackburn(Read author interview)
Bear Club William Yarbrough(Read author interview)

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