I just received the following e-mail:
Thank you so much for submitting to SmokeLong. It''s a little scary to submit to a magazine that has no archives to review, and I hope you''ll find our quality to be high.
That said, we have chosen our top three stories! Boy, was this a difficult task. Without further ado, I''d like to congratulate:
Nance Knauer, "Neighborhood Watch"
S.H. Gall, "Gerontophile: An Imposition"
Peggy Duffy, "A Cautionary Measure"
Congratulations to you all! We are so proud of your work.
"A Cautionary Measure will be published 9/15/03 in SmokeLong
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