"Purpleless" by Rebecca Gullickson Our Mission: SmokeLong Quarterly is dedicated to bringing the best flash fiction to the web on a quarterly basis, whether written by widely published authors, or those new to the craft. The term "smoke-long" comes from the Chinese, who noted that reading a piece of flash takes about the same length of time as smoking a cigarette. All the work we publish is precisely that—about a smoke long. Issue One Letter From the Editor Marcia Mascolini Pressing Hard Peggy Duffy A Cautionary Measure Stephanie Dial I Watch Charlotte Jones Rest in Peace Beverly C. Lucey Mrs. Mitts Ann Zimmerman Speak of the Dead Darlene Cah A Private Trinity Jade Walker The Chair Affair Beverly Jackson A Trip To The Grocer's Margaret A. Frey I Shall Not Wear Purple Catherine Talley Generations Linda Pierce Dinner's Ready! Gary Glauber How Pusch Came To Shovel S.H. Gall Gerontophile: An Imposition Sheila Killian Walking the Plank Nance Knauer Neighborhood Watch Jeff Lindsey Scent and Sensibility