“All that stuff that you thought was so important can be gone in five minutes.”

I always fall in love with women who have never lived in unfinished houses. Who’ve never had blankets make a maze of walls that breathe. My architecture is unsteady and haphazard: these women expect...

If your dad died in Switzerland blowing an alpine horn, if his anterior cerebral artery burst, and your mom said his last breath rang through the hills, past deer, past goats, beyond trees, if you kne...

If your dad died in Switzerland blowing an alpine horn, if his anterior cerebral artery burst, and your mom said his last breath rang through the hills, past deer, past goats, beyond trees, if you kne...

by Joshua Jones Lofflin

SmokeLong’s second biennial competition to celebrate the tiniest of stories–The SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition (The Mikey)–has its winners! What a task it was to choose these top 8 micros. A ...

Cassava Republic Press’s Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize is dedicated to exceptional works of non-fiction by Black women.

Christopher Eccleston narrates Barry Hines’s powerful coming-of-age tale.

Sixteen of the SmokeLong editors have been hard at work narrowing down the field in The SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition 2023–from almost 1500 micros to our shortlisted group of 17 (certainly a mir...

We offer this 4min video on “Science in America”, containing what may be the most important words Neil deGrasse Tyson has ever spoken.-------------Redglass P...

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