With a nod to Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected, Baggy is the story of a boy's playful pranks and the price he must pay for his fun.

A creepy short story of why it is always better to stay on the path

An unexpected tale of opportunity in the rental market. Inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Roald Dahl.

A short cautionary tale; when does a stranger become something more?

The decision of one man seems to change the course of the day for many. But was change coming, anyway?

Life is a bus journey. Or is it a lottery, where you select your own numbers or even make a random choice? Whichever, the odds do not change. What does matter, however, is what you do with the ticket. Anita Smith left hers on the bus.

The age of technology? The ride might be longer than you think.

Sterling Close is the short story of a tiny community and their very particular, and rather unexpected, tastes. From the author of other unexpected short stories, novelist Barbara Jaques.

A short tale of threading lives and private stories where not everything is as it seems.

A short tale of an elitist gardening club driving the horticulturally minded to insane extremes. Nature, nurture or just plain creepy?

A short story of life. Waiting in a supermarket car park, in a small English town, is a bus decorated for fun. But what sort of party starts at 8am and includes the young the old and strangers?

A short tale of two people finding warmth at an ancient ritual and a dark, unwanted obsession.