Weekly Stories - SmokeLong Quarterly (2024)

A Three-Hour Tour Under the Rose Recipe Jubilee A Case for Forbidden Words How to Talk to Your Children About War Noir Story Chicken The Title of Our Memoir Things the Rain Says[i] Deliver Us Ponytail Compendium And so we shall only be glad in the belly of a whale Free Fallin’ Please Be Careful Cameron, Asher, Jonah, Jack Stock Photography Five Things Hana Sushi Bead Lizards This Charming Man Portrait of an Ape The First Music I Ever Heard Was the Music of My Mother’s Voice We Hadn’t Believed In Jesus Until Our Mom Brought Him Home Folía de las almas Amicho Cajero de supermercado Memoria El nectario Eddie, in Three Parts Death Drive Somewhere in Eastern Europe, a Tiger Hides in a Puffy Jacket Museum of Natural History The Resident in Room 402 Emergency Contact What We Always Carry With Us vacations Remembrance Drowning on Main Street Three Acts of Self-Actualization Object! The Living Water Flight Reflex Swan Lake Perdida Matrifa*gia: Los diablitos de Doña Juana Las matriarcas L A U R A Homesick (想家) The Pelican My Americanah Paradise Cut 3 Kinds of Lies Prótesis Rabbitfish in ache Lottery All the Ways We’re Hurting La cantera Las vaquitas del patrón. El Presente La azotea Life Size In Lieu of Closure Sweetie Our Lady of Perpetual Plastic A Brief Natural History of the Automobile Porcupine Ms. Looms’ Big & Gigantic Question of the Week Send Us Your Stories The Reason Wolverine and Deadpool Are Flambéing on the Barbecue I’m the Henchman fromWitnessWho Was Buried in Grain, Here to Warn You About the Dangers of Silos Re: Your Short-Story Collection Hide The Larvae of Tree-dwelling Species Stay Where They Hatch Endings If God is My Drug Can I Still Claim Sobriety? Dusk When a Man You Met Online Suggests You Visit a Lake My Mother Calls Her a Head-Case Convict sing-sing The Thought of Roux The Wait for the Whoosh A Case for De-Extinction at the End of the World Savage Daughters Foldable Essay with Wet Bee The Bear of Goffstown Listening Only Skin The Old Baby Our Girl, Victor Masquerade A Letter to my Therapist, to Whom I’m No Longer Speaking Plants of Paradise There are a thousand ways to love a snake but only one way to kill it. Knot Things I say to my son while he sleeps Thin Mints A Bee Story Sleepers The Other Half Of A Yellow Sun Unwritten Questions For Further Study Lions in the Amazon Vengeance Dirt Quail With A Topknot *69 Zero Why I think of you every time I bruise What is Ours Waiting To Pieces This Is How You Give A Baby CPR Search Party How to Build a Bunker Four Lies Cupola Ciénaga All Your Fragile History Paper Nests Over There Midnight Shift Buried Deep, Buried for Good A Soldier Lobster We Expect You To Take This Seriously Happiness is Homemade What You Owe Lucy Ignores Death Stories We Will Always Know Knife Game Cartwheel Mother The First Invention Gator Bait Librarian The Thick of It Double Blind What You Will Think About at Your Mother’s Deathwatch Recess On Desert Towns and How To Leave Them Eternal Sunshine Flush Friday Night at Debra Jo’s Phone Sex Emporium Human Song This Woman Is the Only Woman Marks The Outlier Mortality Event All About Things That Can Hurt Earthquake Girls My Father’s Soul Liquid History Viewfinder Shallow Water The House That Is Currently My Mother’s House (but Was Previously My Parents’ House and Will Soon Be a Stranger’s House) Is the Perfect Setting for Nightmares Flyover “Parasol,” Demetrios Jameson, 1947 Good Old Leon Milk Money The Least f*cked Up People The Day of Small Things The Space of a Decade Not Louise The Strings Between Us A Map of Woebegone Places Emma Jane Watson in a Drawer Useful Information Helicopter Parent Bone Airplane Mode In November 2017 Blank What Wasn’t Swallowed Was Exhaled Milk and Other Lies The Great Abide Arrangement Anne Boleyn Could Drink You Under the Table Alligator There Weren’t Even Any Bubbles Second Base What I Have Coming To Me The Unicorn Trespassers The Sand and the Sea Ourself, Ourself Government-issued Bunnies Now You See Me If the light, then the light We Lose Our Virginities The Way to Reach You Sky Like Concrete The Photo Swans All the Other Dogs Screaming The Village with All of the Boyfriends Cubalub The Sky Is Just Another Neighborhood Parasomnia Body Snatcher History The Noises from the Neighbors Upstairs: A Nightly Log Safe umbilical Aftershave and Soil Lifeline Sharp Sticks Filthy, Polluted חלב חם / Warm Milk I Thought I Knew the Answer For a Minute There Are Songs That Only Echo in the Belly of the Sea Princess Shipwreck The Cartographers The Heavy Things Nature. Our Father Pastor Bob’s Picnic Ueno Zoo Starlings What We Do for Work Husking San Miguel Sins of Omission Good Boys I’m Such a slu*t and I Don’t Give a f*ck Still Life with Hairball All of us are in pieces Manatees Night Run Floodplain Encuentro Nocturno Forks After the Third Notice, the City Shuts Off Our Power How to be Another Person in Five Days Pulpo Geology Lucky Number Six Dream Barbie Where the Words Go Three Ways of Getting Lost Hunger i utide Story with a Gallinule’s Wing in It The Life Cycle of Salmon Straight Lines Wolves Txaj – A Prayer Gravity, Reduced A Smooth, Shallow Cut Missed Connections Postage sh*t Cassandra Saw That She Didn’t Tell the Trojans Because at that Point f*ck Them Anyway Accident A Place You Know The Enchantment The Body’s Amen Independence Day The Way of Things Now The Father’s Story Softening Dear Fiction Editor: Quiet Hours That Sun, Struggling Down Aufgaben: ein Triptychon Safety Gun House of Mirrors My Husband Is Made of Ash At Sea The Farmers’ Market Little Plum The Sound and the Song Egg Baby The Nest Storage Little Harlot Surge and Recede Summer Baby My Friend Diane I’d Botch Data for You The Tale End Several Repurposed Pictorials Cravat Prismatic Sometimes My Father Comes Back from the Dead The Brittle Man Foresight The Girl with the Egg The Final Problem Determining the Gull Bone Index Sea of Love Scooter Some Cool Heaven Daddy’s Boy The Favorite Person Dollhead Not to Scale The Kindest Cut He Called Me Honeybunch Parting Memory When They Say Share the Road They Don’t Know What I’ve Already Given The Butterfly Effect Things You Won’t Tell Your Therapist To Hold But Not Have Grains and Names Recurring Dreams Inspired by David Foster Wallace’s Post-Modern Classic Infinite Jest Bait Hi Stone, Well, Girl Of All the Animals in the Aquarium The 12 Steps (Of Making Amends To A Dog) Glint The Moon is a Wasteland Egg Alien Eighty-Eight Minutes at Sea Natural Disaster Bird of Paradise Twelve Things I Can Tell You about Cutting Puberty Drone The Sadness of Spirits The Easy Arm of Adam Ghosht Korma Old Man Falling Off of Stool Any Friend of My Friend Broken Bird Two Truths and One Lie About Marian ‘Lady Tyger’ Trimiar, Former Women’s Lightweight Champion of the World Mutable Pleasures Fall The Pool Guy First Story Next Rest Stop Twenty-Two Miles Sometimes We Both Fight in Wars Chew Recess Girls, Girls, Girls The Freeze Egg Toss, August 1989 Never Never Belly of a Fish The Corn Nobody Like You Tenderoni One Purple Finch Her Lips Metallic