We've been recording our stories since the beginning, and we have a ton of audio goodness (over 150 episodes) available on our podcast over at Jellycast: you can subscribe, download or listen to them individually here if you haven't already. Our most popular episodes, by bandwidth, are listed in order below. #CommuteSorted
Gods & Mortals (September 2016) Starring in September's six stories we have a sassy Satan, a Yorkshire Charon, the Irish god of poetry and love Aengus Og, the Almighty himself in a Mexican prison, Dionysus at AA, Baron Samedi on a Bradford bus, and, of course, guineapigs.
Work & Play (August 2016): Let your hair down in an office-appropriate fashion with our five winning stories on a Work & Play theme. Topics include demonic harassment in the workplace, death while shopping, post-mortem am-dram, colleague cuckoldry and a room full of nightmares, which for once doesn't mean the stationery cupboard ...
Flesh & Bone (October 2016): For Hallowe'en we served up plenty of fresh fictional meat: embalmers and gravediggers in love, vengeful Hollywood wives, worms, livestock, bodyswaps, zombies, ghosts, revenants and a rather crap cyborg. Enjoy!
Dead & Buried (October 2013) Part 1 & Part 2: Another of our ever-popular Hallowe'en events, featuring zombies, voodoo, serial killers, ghosts and spousal homicide.
Beginning & End (May 2014): Five stories running the gamut from birth to death, with rat pie, off-piste birth plans, Aussie anglers, eidetic prodigies and fiery apocalypse in between.
Cloak & Dagger (November 2013) Part 1 & Part 2: Prostitutes! Mushrooms! Sniping academics! Irish dancehalls! Our November 2013 edition has it all ...
Rack & Ruin (March 2017): Join our pity party and drown your sorrows! Our six tales-of-fail feature stomp-happy giants, ailing pets, serial killers, Roman ruins, decadent down-and-outs and - perhaps most distressingly - creeping male pattern baldness.
Light & Dark (December 2016): Elves, Secret Santa, obscene Christmas lights, Ebenezer Scrooge, estranged relatives and a really, REALLY awkward Christmas dinner - our seasonal special has it all.
Truth & Dare (March 2014): We asked for tales of honesty, bravery and Spin the Bottle. What we got was snipe, booze, Central African corruption, coups, Hoxton tw*ts, naked photography and Death personified, twice. Enjoy.
Boom & Bust (March 2015): The winning stories for our Radio 4-broadcast 2015 event featured Polish pick-up artists, financial cruelty, Deptford dockers, people jumping off buildings, Japanese translators and really a LOT of swearing. (Fly Like a Dolphin is definitely NSFW).
So, it’s Valentine’s Day, and this girl, the one this story is about, is walking down the hill from Haringey station to the bus stop on Green Lanes. She works at a bank in the City, but no one knows exactly what she does there. Maybe she doesn’t know what she’s doing there herself. Anyway. She’s walking along, feeling cold and grey as the day because no one’s going to send her a Valentine’s card. Fog lies like a dirty bed sheet over the valley below, but she’s looking at the pavement. Still, that means that she sees the frog, crouching in the gutter among the cigarette butts, splats of spit and discs of chewing gum. At first she thinks someone has dropped a green leather purse, but no. It’s a real frog.