Big Pulp magazine
The story was inspired by a manger who always put inappropriate smileys into every email that she sent ;-)
No one can remember the exact day that the smileys became sentient. No one ever dreamt that a smiley would save us all. No one now can imagine a world without them. I tried. I tried to leave it all behind but I kept getting sucked back in. Unwillingly.
; "James Bloomer")