cover art "Five Years of SmokeLong" compiled from art by Marty D. Ison, Robert Dornberg, Malina, and 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 Twenty-One Letter From the Editor Bob Arter Paper Mouse Matt Bell The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines Randall Brown The Bone Orchard Blake Butler Disease Relics Brian Allen Carr We Decided to Make Porn Natascia Casey-Dean The Baby Drop-Off Dave Clapper The Cougar Myfanwy Collins Anointed John Colvin Sister Earth Katrina Denza Soap Murray Dunlap The Interpretation of Light Ashley Farmer The Hole Kathy Fish Repair Man Stefanie Freele In the Kitchen She Wakes Scott Garson American Gothic Alicia Gifford Lobster Girl Natalie Goldberg Pen and Notebook Rosanne Griffeth Memento Mori Steven Gullion BiC Evelyn Hampton Parting Lindsay Hunter Tuesday W.P. Kinsella Waiting on Lombard Street Nance Knauer Johnny Jeff Landon Like Swimming Darby Larson Feeling Sad Ellen Meister Alone With Cooper Corey Mesler The Angel's Visitation Mary Miller South Dakota Meg Pokrass California Fruit Bruce Holland Rogers Home Made Jim Ruland Handful of Dirt Paul Silverman Steam City Girl Claudia Smith Sugar Amy Sparks The 13th Toast Kelly Spitzer Gathering Maryanne Stahl Tiny Shadows Thomas White Double-Exposure Joseph Young Epistemology Shellie Zacharia Why This Isn't a Good Story to Tell Michelle Zellers Liquid Bonnie ZoBell Real Estate