The Infinite Bus Pass

David Harris, known to his colleagues as "Speccy" or "Glasses Dave," is a man defined by the parentheses of his own life. His existence is a repetitive cycle of measured milk, insurance forms, and a bus seat that smells of wet dog. He is the personification of the mundane-until a shop that wasn't there yesterday offers him a ticket to a destination he never thought to ask for.When Dave boards the bus, the familiar streets of London dissolve into the fog of the Infinite Bus Pass. His journey begins in Mask Town, a distorted version of his own neighborhood where every resident wears a crude papier-mâché face and his own double works tirelessly in a garden of weeds. Guided by a silent boy in a neutral mask, Dave is thrust into a reality where the logic of the commute has been replaced by the rules of a cosmic purgatory.At each stop, the stakes grow more personal and more bizarre. On the shores of the Still Sea, he watches fishermen haul up living memories and club his childhood dreams into wooden boxes. At "Home Sweet Home," he finds his sanctuary infested with chattering, baby-faced spiders that turn domestic comfort into a skittering nightmare. From a post office that packages souls into parcels to a school playground where children chant ancient myths, Dave must navigate a world that is as terrifying as it is absurd.He is not alone on this journey. Alongside the Boy, he shares the heater with the "Trio": Dawn and Mavis, two old women who treat the end of the world like a disappointing trip to the shops, and Karen, a silent, sovereign presence whose commands even the engine obeys. Together, they face the Crossing-a bridge of bone where the ferryman demands a ticket Dave isn't sure he can afford to keep.The Infinite Bus Pass is a work of gritty British surrealism, blending the atmospheric dread of folk horror with the biting wit of a rainy Tuesday. It is a story about the choices we never make and the cost of finally waking up to the world around us. In a place where the bus is a living organism and the driver only accepts the "exact fare" of your identity, Dave must decide if he is willing to become more than just "the man who wore glasses". Adam Joseph Giles is a genre‑fluid storyteller whose fiction wanders freely between the mythic, the uncanny, and the quietly absurd. His work mixes dark humour with cosmic unease, weaving together science‑fantasy epics, intimate psychological novellas, and strange comedic tales about the things that lurk just outside the corner of the eye. He lives in Norfolk, writing in the borderlands between realities and occasionally laughing at what he finds there