Birmingham Writers’ Group

Breadcrumbs is the debut short story collection by author Simon Fairbanks.

Horror, fantasy and fairy tales merge in these twenty-one tales traversing all manner of times and worlds: twins escape their kidnapper and seek refuge in a mysterious cave, a homeless crusader hopes to save his friends from the fiendish Bogeyman, a life-changing encounter occurs in a Sri Lankan tuc-tuc, and a lonely girl discovers a monster in the woods.

Breadcrumbs also features a new adventure starring Denebola and his sky-horse Palladium, set within the world of Simon’s fantasy novel The Sheriff.

Follow this trail of Breadcrumbs into Simon’s imagination and discover stories both dark and wonderful.

Sheriff Denebola is recruited by young Toby to help rid his village of a winged demon. The demon has tormented the people of Angel’s Keep every night for the past week so Denebola vows to capture the creature. However, the demon is not the only shadow cast over Angel’s Keep and Denebola soon finds himself caught up in a mystery where angels, demons, heroes and villains are not all that they seem.