I know, just what I need, right? This one, however, promises to be a really interesting collection of works, but the deal is, we need more contributers.

The project is really my good friend Mike’s idea, but I love it and immediately agreed to contribute. So here’s the deal: you commit to write one of what will be a total of twenty vignettes, no more than a page in length, about anything you want so long as it centers around the idea of one cigarette. Once we’ve compiled all twenty, each will represent one cigarette from a pack – clever I know, right? You don’t have to be a writer, hell, you can be someone who’s never written a thing in your life, so long as you’re motivated enough to finish something and contribute.

In terms of prompt, the things we’ve discussed are the oddly communal aspect of smoking (how people are always willing to let someone bum a cigarette, etc., how it’s a sort of connection between people who otherwise might never so much as speak to each other) and the interesting dynamic of it – but your contribution can be anything you can think of; no rules or regulations other than the center of each piece has to be one cigarette.

I don’t honestly know what’s going to be done with the manuscript afterward – it’s something we probably won’t think about until we actually get it off the ground and have contributers – nor the time frame, but if you’re interested at all I’ll keep you up to date as best I can as we go forward. Comment or drop me an e-mail; ninja_breakfast@hotmail.com.