Stories

A selection of short stories set in mysterious Badgers Crossing, its neighbouring town Broccton-Under-Edge and the wider region of Daxonshire – and sometimes even further afield.

Kick Off The Sunday Shoes

An updated and expanded version of Sunday Shoes will appear in Paul’s book Tales From Badgers Crossing (coming spring 2022 from Greenteeth Press), so for the time being this has been taken down. Details of how to buy and/or pre-order a copy will be posted soon. And don’t forget, there are still plenty of other …

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Mayday!

The Pro-2004 was a heavy bit of kit but it was supposed to be the best. That steel outer casing, the guy at Tandy had said, would reduce interference and get the best signal ever! Not only that, but it also had 300 channels which made it far better than the 20 channel scanner that …

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Hello Badger Fans. I’ve got something a little different for you today. This is a script outline which the brilliant Bharat Sarollia sent me after we chatted about Badgers Crossing on Twitter. Although it’s not in a traditional narrative format, it’s still very much a great story and I wanted to share it with everyone. …

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If The Hat Fits

The black ball rattled around the jaws of the pocket and then disappeared down the hole, rumbling its way into the bowels of the table. Nathan clicked his fingers. “Hand it over,” he demanded.  At first, he thought the guy was going to resist but Nathan’s mates sat on the stools at the bar nearby …

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Stalker

From: Pauline Brewster [editor@cryptozoologist.com] To: Martin [martin@qualmail.net] Subject: IMPORTANT – DO NOT DELETE WITHOUT READING!!!!!!! Martin, You’re going to love this one!!!! I’ve attached an email sent to us by someone called Jeff who claims that his house was besieged by a cryptoid (my words, not his – he says “hairy creature”) in the 80s …

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