Tori Malcangio’s mom was a rodeo queen and her dad a national champ gymnast, so she once rode horses and was very flexible. On a boring weekday, she takes her 17-month-old to model homes and they play hide and seek in the all the closets. Running keeps her unflabby and writing keeps her sane. She’s an advertising copywriter and is getting close to finishing her first short story collection, Swallow.
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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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.