cover art "No. 41 - 2007" 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 Twenty-Four Letter From the Editor Sarah Black Barista Edmond Caldwell Night Vision Bill Cook Star Man Thomas Cooper Bluegills Scott Garson Seattle Gymnopédie Shane Goth One Night at Crobar Tiff Holland Scrapple Tim Jones-Yelvington What If The Dungeon Closes Darby Larson Toes Tara Laskowski The Hamster Charles Lennox Dirtclouds Ravi Mangla Moat Heather McDonald A Witnessing at the K&W Cafeteria Jen Michalski Roots Sam Nam I Use Commas like Ninja Stars Gregory Napp Turtle Creek Susannah Pabot Prey John Riley By Saturday, We'd Be Singing Ania Vesenny At the Foot of the Mountain