Hi all! Tomorrow’s my birthday so I won’t be able to join Literary Namjooning’s launch for Issue 3 but if you would like to join in with the wonderful editors and readers of our mag along with our am...

after David Bowie’s “Heroes”This we know: A wall is.A kiss is.And we are kissing still.We hear the drone of a slip cover of a song. Your song.We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — ...

We’re doing it again! Promptember, an in-between almost month squished into the crannies of autumn, is an intense addition to the mensal calendar. It’s special. During the almost month of Promptember,...

Sumitra Singam Listen to Sumitra read her prose poem The Lulu Lemon women talk of Romeo and Juliet between sets of bicep curls because Lovefool comes on over the speakers and they remember studying…

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So happy to receive my contributor’s copy of What Whispers Back: Spinning Hawaiʻi’s Spooky Tales from Bess Press in the mail last night. It’s so pretty!

this is her favorite; there’s something about the windsweptness of this coastline. Scruffy trees bent from wind the sharp smell of cold. On a cliff overlooking the ocean she has created a sort of nest...

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We started a new series at SmokeLong! I get to interview our Submissions Editors. As you may know, I am the Senior Submissions Editor and I have the pleasure of wrangling the queue, assigning subs an...

Without an immersive POV Readers Stop Turning Pages

This Stone House It’s curious. The rocks have faces. There’s Mother in bed, too blue to rise, a crack in the foundation. Father, all show, as decorative as cornices. Siblings, gone: My older sister…

Your hand on my chair, nudging it back and forth ever so slowly while you peer over my shoulder to examine the chart on my computer.

Over the next few months, we’ll be introducing our submissions editors so that you, dear writers and readers, might have a clearer idea of who we are, who reads your work first at SmokeLong, and what ...

For one night only, we dare the wildness of Evan’s room and smoke the last of his weed while listening to Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Uprising on repeat, my head against the speaker, Sam’s head on my ...

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Stim, a poem by poet Kathryn Reese. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.

I have two wonderful things to celebrate today! First, the awesome Flash the Court nominated my story “ Drop by Drop ” for The Best Small Fictions ! Hope you check out the other nominated storie...

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You ever feel like that? Like some days you just don’t want to adult, to cook, to clean, to go to work, to exercise, to care about yourself, to do whatever it is that needs to be done? I feel like I...

Book club for lovers of the novella-in-flash. Monthly meetings online.