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Tara Laskowski

Tara Laskowski has been editor at SmokeLong Quarterly since 2010. Her short story collection Bystanders was hailed by Jennifer Egan as “a bold, riveting mash-up of Hitchcockian suspense and campfire-tale chills.” She is also the author of Modern Manners For Your Inner Demons, tales of dark etiquette. Her fiction has been published in the Norton anthology Flash Fiction International, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Mid-American Review, and numerous other journals, magazines, and anthologies. Tara lives and works in a suburb of Washington, D.C.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: “Farewell, Not Goodbye”—Editor’s Letter

Story: “Air pockets of beauty”—A Letter from the Editor

Story: “Zooming In”—A Letter from the Editor

Story: “All that flash can do”—A Letter from the Editor

Story: “All About the Body”—A Letter from the Editor

Story: “Let’s Get It On”—A Letter from the Editor

Story: A Tribute and Memory—A Letter from the Editor

Story: “Call and Response”—A Letter from the Editor

Story: “There is light here”—A Letter from the Editor

Story: “The Nature Issue”—A Letter from the Editor

Story: “Desiccated Roses”—A Letter from the Editor

Story: “Nebulous Jellyfish”—A Letter from the Editor

Story: “Through the eyes of kids”—A Letter from the Editor

Story: Letter from the Editor (49)

Story: Letter from the Editor (48)

Story: Letter from the Editor

Story: Letter from the Editor (46)

Story: Letter from the Editor (45)

Story: Letter from the Editor (44)

Story: Letter from the Editor (42)

Story: Letter from the Editor (40)

Story: Letter from the Editor (38)

Story: Letter from the Editor (36)

Story: Letter from the Editor (35)

Story: Letter from the Editor (34)

Story: Letter from the Editor (33)

Story: Letter from the Editor (32)

Story: When the Cicadas Come
Interview: Smoking With Tara Laskowski

Story: Little Girls
Interview: Smoking With Tara Laskowski

Story: A Minor Setback
Interview: Smoking with Tara Laskowski

Story: The Hamster
Interview: Smoking with Tara Laskowski

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Deadline November 15th!

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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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