cover art "Sparta, NJ" by David Ohlerking 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 Thirty-Three Letter From the Editor Meagan Cass Egg Toss, August 1989 Chella Courington Dinner Parties Where Place Cards Leave No Choice in Seating Berit Ellingsen Sovetskoye Shampanskoye Danica Green They Live in Black and White Micah Dean Hicks Watermelon Seeds Robert Hinderliter Gwendolyn Joe Kapitan Sleepless #7 Henry S. Kivett Mutual Sara Lippmann Wolf Cry Carmel Reid Mawle Jamila Christopher Merkner When I Lose Track of the Children, 5 & 7, Near the Magazine Section at Costco John Minichillo Finally Kate Nesheim I'm a Woman For Sure Katy Resch Exposure Mather Schneider The Road to the Casino Del Sol Amber Sparks Never Never Chris L. Terry The Language of Hairzilla Interested in subscribing to SmokeLong's weekly newsletter? Click here. An email should be created. Send it as is, and you'll be subscribed. If the link does not work for you, send an email to imailsrv@smokelong.com with Subscribe slq-info in the body of the email (no subject is necessary). You'll receive updates detailing the release of new issues, new reading periods, contests, etc. We do not make our mail list available to anyone else.