Issue Sixty - The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction

Issue Sixty — The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction

June 2018

From the Editor

When I first thought of the idea for the contest issue, I was excited but also very nervous. Would we be able to earn enough money to pay our winner? Would anyone enter? Would our submitters be mad at us for closing our general submissions for so long? And yet, after 15 years of publishing,… Continue reading Issue Sixty — The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction

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Smokelong Quarterly Issue Sixty — The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction

Whale Fall Alvin Park(Read author interview)
All the Other Dogs Screaming Devin Kelly(Read author interview)
Satellite Elaine Edwards(Read author interview)
I Went To the Tardigrade Eliezra Schaffzin(Read author interview)
A Matter between Neighbors Jennifer Wortman(Read author interview)
I’m Ron McRain said Ron McRain Jonathan Cardew(Read author interview)
Boy Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor(Read author interview)
Haunt Theresa Hottel(Read author interview)
Dark Little Spaces Sam Burns(Read author interview)
The Loneliness of the Siberian Chipmunk Michelle Orabona(Read author interview)
Taking Notes Kerry Cullen(Read author interview)
The Reader in the Square Sara Johnson Allen(Read author interview)
Anywhere We’ve Ever Wanted Jonathan D. Nixon(Read author interview)
It’s Over Molly Giles(Read author interview)
The Groundskeeper Devin Kelly(Read author interview)
The Color of the Sea at Noon Kathryn McMahon(Read author interview)
Mother of God Ulf Pike(Read author interview)
Everything There Is to Love on Earth Lyndsie Manusos(Read author interview)
The Good Old Days Josh Weston(Read author interview)
How Leopards Sleep Molia Dumbleton(Read author interview)
A Boy Who Does Not Remember His Father Joy Baglio(Read author interview)
Blemish Jessica Cavero(Read author interview)
The Cover-up K.C. Mead-Brewer(Read author interview)

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