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Welcome to the Smoke: Issue One
The wait is over — the very first issue of Neon & Smoke is here.
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We started this magazine to celebrate stories that shimmer at the edge of light and shadow — stories that move, unsettle, and linger. Today, we’re proud to share our debut issue with you.
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This debut issue includes:
A man recording his final memories before a virus steals his mind.
An aging actress confronting the cruel voice that lives beneath her skin.
And a farmer who learns too late that even forgotten gods demand devotion.
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Stories that ache, shimmer, and bite — each one burning in its own way.
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Read Issue One now:
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Thank you for joining us from the start. Your support means everything — and we can’t wait to share what comes next.
With gratitude,
T and J
Where the Glow Meets the Haze
Flash Fiction
We publish bold, layered flash fiction—stories that move, that mean, and that linger. We welcome all genres, as long as there’s emotional resonance, narrative stakes, and a voice that leaves a mark. Surprise us.
Digital Art
Each issue, we feature a curated selection of digital art around a central theme. This time, it’s People Like Us—a call for visual storytelling that explores identity, intimacy, kinship, difference, and the quiet (or loud) ways we gather, resist, and belong. Think vibrant, strange, layered, raw. Interpretation is welcome—we want to feel something.
Poetry
We’re looking for poems that pulse with energy, voice, and emotional honesty. For this issue, we invite work that engages with the theme Ritual—daily or divine, inherited or invented, personal or shared. Whether lyrical or narrative, formal or experimental, send us poems that break and mend, that think and feel, that earn their place.
Our Story Unfolded
Neon & Smoke is a home for bold, voice-driven fiction with emotional weight and narrative fire. We publish stories that don’t sit quietly—tales where the plot might thrill, chill, or make you laugh, but always reveals something deeper. We crave characters who leap off the page, language that crackles, and stories that blur the line between genre and literary not for the sake of novelty, but it’s the most honest way to tell the truth.