Stories
28 February 2011
|Release: Part 3
By Freida Theant
SMOKE SIGNALS MAGAZINE - March - April 2011
“Spider,” Allen said.
“Precisely,” she agreed, pointing at the insect with her cigarette. “A disgusting, loathsome spider. That’s him.”
31 December 2010
|Release: Part 2
By Freida Theant
SMOKE SIGNALS MAGAZINE - January - February 2011
"The nametag on your jumper," she replied, paused while she livened her Pall Mall with a short tug and opened her mouth packed with the downy cloud. And then instantly, with her gulp of air, it vanished within, revealing her delectable mouth. For a space of three heartbeats, there was stillness, broken by the muted rush of her opaque breath. "You must have forgotten you're wearing that."
01 November 2010
|Release: Part 1
By Freida Theant
SMOKE SIGNALS MAGAZINE - November - December 2010
The master of the topgallant crew sang out the command “heave” at intervals and thus the deck hands drew in bight after bight until the last of the sail was hauled in and made flat over the yard. To secure the salt-crusted bundle they wrapped it with hemp cords and “made fast” to the jackstay, that metal rod protruding a few inches above the spar for a handgrip and anchoring post.
30 August 2010
|The Adventures of Marge and Miriam
Chapter One: The Cigarette Break
By Robert (Don’t You Dare Call Me Bob)
SMOKE SIGNALS MAGAZINE - September- October 2010
Marge was aching for a cigarette. It had only been twenty minutes or so since her last cigarette break when she’d polished off three unbelievably delicious Winston 100s in rapid succession but now she was craving a juicy Newport 100 and she couldn’t wait another second. Yet wait she must... for forty more excruciating minutes.