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SmokeLong Quarterly

SmokeLong Quarterly has been dedicated to publishing the best flash narratives since 2003.

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Issue Ninety

December 2025

From the Editor

I have so much to tell you. Issue 90 is a double issue with 17 pieces of flash brilliance. Thank you to everyone who lent a hand in getting this issue done. To the submissions editors, Circuit Trainers from SmokeLong Fitness, the creative writing classes and their instructors who read the submissions queue, thank you… Continue reading New Front (continue reading)

Smokelong Quarterly Issue Ninety

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Issue Twenty-Four

Spring for me begins when 1:59:59 becomes, in the next second, 3:00 AM. That lost hour. I’ve always loved it, been fascinated by it. Kind of like what happens to words when they’re deleted. It’s a rebirth, but there’s something of death in that hour, too. I like to think of stories beginning out of… Continue reading Issue Twenty-Four

Featuring stories by: Ania VesennyBill CookCharles LennoxDarby LarsonEdmond CaldwellGregory NappHeather McDonaldJen MichalskiJohn RileyRavi ManglaTara LaskowskiSam NamSarah BlackScott GarsonShane GothThomas CooperTiff HollandTim Jones-YelvingtonSusannah Pabot

Lindsey Pharr

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Lindsey Pharr

Lindsey Pharr (she/her) writes from a cabin in the woods outside of Asheville, North Carolina. Her work has appeared in Brevity, SmokeLong Quarterly, Fourth Genre, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from the Naslund-Mann School of Writing at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. Read more on her website www.lindsey-pharr.com.

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