cover art "Repression of an Open Mind" 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 Eighteen Letter From the Editor Smoking With Randall Brown Smoking With Mary Miller Steve Almond When the Toasts Stopped Being Funny Robert J. Bradley Nailed Dan Chaon Raymond Carver Terry DeHart The Sound of Success Heidi W. Durrow Ethnic Lego Girls Carry Spears Stuart Dybek Mole Man Emily Fridlund Party Jason Jackson From Halliville To Grice's Town Jeff Landon Starfish Sean Lovelace Insomnia of an Elderly French Designer Davin Malasarn Display Kuzhali Manickavel Little Bones Susan O'Neill Stigmata Dominic Preziosi Inroads Teri Davis Rouvelas Bachon Jessica Schantz Voc Rehab Vignettes Curtis Smith Neighbors Beth Thomas Caging the Thing