{"sf1_id":1828125,"sf2_id":"pnGO42Mn","title":"The Badgers of West Taxideles","author":"Apolarbear17","words":568,"posted_at":"2022-03-09T18:25:00.000Z","tags":["Badgers","Blood","Horror","Poetry","Transformation","World Badger Day-October 6th"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1828125-the-badgers-of-west-taxideles","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/pnGO42Mn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/fd/7e/fd7e288b-24b0-4304-b741-7d65490e9541","description":"This was a poem I wrote for World Badger Day on October 6th but that ended up coming out several days after that. It's a horror poem that's almost a prose story about the strange town of West Taxideles and the bizarre badgers that live there. It's a mysterious place isn't it?\nOn a side note this is also one of my favorite things(poem, short story, etc.) I've ever written. Originally posted in October 2020","content":"The Badgers of West Taxideles \u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;By: A.X. Bueno\n\nA wheel on your ride skids off and burns\n\nTurns out you'll be stuck for a while to learn, about West Taxideles\n\nIt's the city these strange badgers call home\u0026nbsp;\n\nA land where no humans roam, West Taxideles\u0026nbsp;\n\nThese badgers on two legs they walk\n\nThey're about five feet tall and use chitters, snorts, keckers, and growls instead of words to talk\n\nThey like to disappear to sleep during the day but at night come back to hunt, gather and play in West Taxideles\n\nHere in this sett of badgers you'll feel alone as the badgers mingle and hunt on their own\u0026nbsp;\n\nIt's an eerily quiet town with many buildings unused and blood scatter about the ground\u0026nbsp;\n\nThere's even a few pieces of human clothes around but no humans to be found but at least it's not East Taxideles\n\nOver there are big, nasty wolverines\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd a series of painful gurgling screams over at East Taxideles\u0026nbsp;\n\nNo over here is badger town\u0026nbsp;\n\nHere many different types of badgers are around\u0026nbsp;\n\nAmerican, European, Honey, Hog, various Ferret and even hybrid Badgers abound\u0026nbsp;\n\nThey all watch you with suspicion and unwavering interest as you tread the crumbling ground\u0026nbsp;\n\nEventually you see, after all your walking around\u0026nbsp;\n\nA familiar sight and smell a familiar smell in this very old, unfamiliar town called West Taxideles\n\nA car sits with it's tires slashed and removed\n\nThe car doors are open with their metal bruised\n\nAlong with the clothes caked in dried blood that you're guessing at one point oozed\u0026nbsp;\n\nIt's about time you decide\u0026nbsp;\n\nTime to get out of West Taxideles\n\nBut that's when the badgers start to surround\u0026nbsp;\n\nThey look hungry and a few start trying to pin you to the ground\u0026nbsp;\n\nBut since they aren't very big you manage to escape and try to scream\u0026nbsp;\n\nBut they somehow steal your voice before you can and now on you they're starting to convene\n\nYou run to try to escape this nightmare scene\n\nThe badgers chitter and almost seem to laugh now as they follow you through the town it seems\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;But unfortunately for you your fate was already sealed\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd the badgers squeal with delight as they catch up to you, their meal\u0026nbsp;\n\nThey sink their teeth right into your flesh\u0026nbsp;\n\nBut after a while they stop eating and leave you a sopping mess\n\nYour blood gushing in places and you with chunks strewn around a few spots on the floor\n\nAs you sit there dying they watch and then you realize what they are standing around, waiting for\n\nYou feel the change happening to all your flesh that still clings\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe fur starts to spread and every part of you stings\u0026nbsp;\n\nPretty soon you see your human hands start to become paws\n\nAnd oop, out pop your big badger claws\n\nYou shrink a little as your body adjusts\n\nYou gain the build of a badger and you're too weak now to make much of a fuss\n\nWest Taxideles has now claimed you\n\nYou're now part of this bizarre badger clan\n\nYou tried hard to escape but no one who comes to this town stays a human\u0026nbsp;\n\nThanks to the curse of West Taxideles\u0026nbsp;\n\nYou were always going to get stuck\n\nI guess you were just straight out of luck\u0026nbsp;\n\nFor you are now one of the many badgers of West Taxideles   \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n  \n  \n\n"}