https://www.smokelong.com/stories/the-prediction/
The Prediction - SmokeLong Quarterly
When my grandmother was a young girl in Machva one of the fortune tellers predicted she would die a violent death, and this, like everything the fortune...
smokelong quarterlyprediction
https://www.smokelong.com/stories/our-black-comedy/
Our Black Comedy - SmokeLong Quarterly
“Your humour is really black,” you say to me, that first day we meet; standing in the college garden, just two future corpses, about to fall in love. +++ At...
black comedysmokelong quarterly
https://www.smokelong.com/stories/translation/
Translation - SmokeLong Quarterly
My students speak twenty-nine languages: Javanese, Kikuya, Navajo, Farsi. They come from: Kosovo, Cambodia, Belize, Zimbabwe—Laos, Rwanda, Estonia, Uruguay....
smokelong quarterlytranslation
https://www.smokelong.com/interviews/smoke-mirrors-with-caroline-bock/
Smoke & Mirrors with Caroline Bock - SmokeLong Quarterly
In your story, “matching plaid chairs, burnt orange couch” is immediately evocative of the 1970s; it doesn’t feel to me that other decades have such an easily...
smokelong quarterlymirrorscarolinebock
https://www.smokelong.com/stories/four-disconnected-truths-about-my-father/
Four Disconnected Truths About My Father - SmokeLong Quarterly
i.My father calls me on the phone. It’s been years since I last talked with him. He asks me how I am, asks how’s the wife, how’s our kid. He says he was...
about my fathersmokelong quarterlyfourdisconnectedtruths
https://www.smokelong.com/interviews/smoking-with-jamie-zerndt/
Smoking With Jamie Zerndt - SmokeLong Quarterly
Jul 23, 2021 - From where did this story jump into your consciousness and land so skillfully onto the page? I actually taught English in South Korea for a year and this park...
smokelong quarterlysmokingjamie
https://www.smokelong.com/interviews/smoke-mirrors-with-katie-zeigler/
Smoke & Mirrors with Katie M. Zeigler - SmokeLong Quarterly
“Paradise Cut” is one of those narratives that gives anew when read a second time. The reader can’t be certain what has happened until the line, “My mother and...
smokelong quarterlymirrorskatiezeigler
https://www.smokelong.com/stories/letter-from-the-editor-44/
Letter from the Editor (44) - SmokeLong Quarterly
Dear Friends, Cha-cha-cha-cha-changes… I’ve got some very exciting SmokeLong news to announce. First, we are working on a long-awaited redesign of our web...
from the editorsmokelong quarterlyletter
https://www.smokelong.com/interviews/smoke-mirrors-with-pat-jameson/
Smoke & Mirrors with Pat Jameson - SmokeLong Quarterly
I am in awe of how much of a life is portrayed in this flash. There’s the full spectrum of achievements, sins, beginnings, and endings. This story is...
smokelong quarterlymirrorspatjameson
https://www.smokelong.com/stories/homesick-%E6%83%B3%E5%AE%B6/
Homesick (想家) - SmokeLong Quarterly
Jul 25, 2022 - The son reads but never responds to his extended family’s WeChat messages. Yet they still bother to tell him his grandfather—his yeye—has passed away. He...
smokelong quarterlyhomesick
https://www.smokelong.com/smokelong-news-digest-issue-2/
SmokeLong News Digest, Issue 2 - SmokeLong Quarterly
Mar 29, 2015 - News from SmokeLong Contributors and Staff: Foust’s story collection Sins of Omission will be released this May (2015) by Tidal Press. It’s available for...
news digestissuequarterly
https://www.smokelong.com/stories/la-azotea/
La azotea - SmokeLong Quarterly
Mar 14, 2022 - La Habana no parecía detenida en el tiempo: realmente lo estaba. Veía a sus gentes languidecer con el calor, el aburrimiento, la pobreza y la inercia de una...
la azoteasmokelong quarterly
https://www.smokelong.com/universe-multiverse-miniverse/
Universe, Multiverse, Miniverse - SmokeLong Quarterly
Jun 2, 2016 - In SmokeLong‘s “Why Flash Fiction?” series, flash fiction writers and editors explore what draws them to the form, from the first time they wrote a piece of...
smokelong quarterlyuniversemultiverseminiverse
https://www.smokelong.com/the-grand-micro-contest-not-long-left-to-enter/
The Grand Micro Contest–Not long left to enter! - SmokeLong Quarterly
Oct 16, 2021 - From March 1 until the clocks strikes midnight in American Samoa on May 16 2021 the SmokeLong editors will be considering your tightest, most compressed work...
the grandsmokelong quarterlymicroleftenter