cover art "Trophy Wife" by Marty D. Ison 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 Fourteen Letter From the Editor CB Anderson Everything Mark Budman Twelve Steps Down Stace Budzko Hands Robert Earle A Boy Makes a Bow Makes a Man Utahna Faith Chancing Sherrie Flick Silver Spur Cafe R. L. Futrell A Few Notes on the Remarkable Sighting of the Bishop-Fish of Smith Mountain Lake David Galef Spooks Bayard Godsave It'll Never Work Out for the Two-Headed Boy Tom Hazuka Utilitarianism Jennifer A. Howard Vandals G. A. Ingersoll The Four Horses Kit Coyne Irwin Carrots and Plum Blossoms Barbara Jacksha At the Well John McCaffrey The Shanghai Cut Peter Mehlman Blank Christopher Merrill The Reunion Stacey Richter Mullet Man, P.I. Bruce Holland Rogers Bruce Holland Rogers Robert Shapard Tamazunchale Ersi Sotiropoulos translated by Kay Cicellis Three Steps for Nunzio J. David Stevens The Angel Melanie Rae Thon Translation Katharine Weber Diamond District Kathleen Wheaton Ancestors