cover art "Birds of Paradise" 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-Six Letter From the Editor Shaindel Beers The Teaching Assistant and the Math Professor Myfanwy Collins Ask for This Lydia Copeland Arrows Michael Czyzniejewski Pregnant With Peanut Butter Nadine Darling How to Disappear Completely Will Donnelly The Guitarist Kathy Fish Prague Sherrie Flick Record Albums Alyson Foster Cooped Foust Eye Steven Gullion Grendel Tiff Holland First Husband Jamie Iredell They Marched Into Fields Beverly A. Jackson Port of Spain Jeff Landon Nobody Like You Tara Laskowski Little Girls Pamela Painter Office at Night Ellen Parker So Long Lauren M. Spencer Quiet Things Angi Becker Stevens My Girlfriend Leaves the Atmosphere S. A. Tranter In Julie's Place Kevin Wilson Blue-Suited Henchman, Kicked Into Shark Tank Joseph Young 2 / 8