cover art "Desire" 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 Nineteen Letter From the Editor Smoking With Jim Ruland Jami Attenberg The Off-Season Grant Bailie A Company Function Melissa Bell Food Spectrum of the Rainbow Family Kim Chinquee Holiday Inn Trinie Dalton Killer Pair Arwen Dewey What Happened to My Purple Flip-Flops Ben Ehrenreich Truth (ii) Laird Hunt How 9) Strange C. Robin Madigan The Mess You Made in Us Darlin' Neal Red Brick Tori Malcangio A Boy Not Born Yet Jack Pendarvis Taco Foot Ben Stein Boyandaquarter Beth Thomas Teec Nos Pos (Circle of Cottonwoods) Benjamin Weissman Music from 1975