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My top 10 25 favourite short stories (external links)

The £1,000,000 Bank-Note by Mark Twain
17776 (What football will look like in the future) by Jon Bois
2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut
The Adventure of a Bather by Italo Calvino
The Birdcage Heart by Peter M Ball
Blue Tigers by Jorge Luis Borges
The Brass Teapot by Tim Macy
The Call of Cthulhu by H P Lovecraft
The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin
The Cheater's Guide to Love by Junot Díaz
The Country of the Blind by H G Wells
The Destructors by Graham Greene
Eating Van Gogh by Mark Simon Burk
Faith and Hope Go Shopping by Joanne Harris
The Gift of the Magi by O Henry
The Index by J G Ballard
A Lifestyle by Fernando Sorrentino
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C Clarke
The Perfect Fit by Hall Jameson
Ponies by Kij Johnson
Stone by Matthew Kneale
Twenty-six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky
Understand by Ted Chiang

My top 10 17 favourite poems (external links)

Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas
Eurydice by Sue Hubbard
Funeral Blues by W H Auden
If— by Rudyard Kipling
I Remember I Was A Point, I Was A Circle by Houda Al-Naamani
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Revenge by Elisa Chavez
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Simeon's Parties by Lucy Courtenay
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin
The Tyger by William Blake
A Visit from Saint Nicholas by Clement Clark Moore (attributed)
When I see young women, I see our glow by Amanda Gorman
The Zero Point Field by Simon Welsh

My top 10 15 favourite pre-millennial video games

Bubble Bobble (and Puzzle Bobble)
Commander Keen series
Doom
Duke Nukem 3D
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Kurtan
Lemmings series
Pac-Man
Popcorn
Quest series by Sierra On-Line (King's, Police & Space)
Sim City 2000
Super Mario Bros series
Super Mario Kart
Tetris
Worms

My top 21 favourite theatre experiences

Avenue Q (Noël Coward Theatre)
Brief Encounter (Kneehigh)
Derren Brown: Underground (Playhouse Theatre)
Don John (Kneehigh at Battersea Arts Centre)
ENRON (Noël Coward Theatre)
Groundhog Day (The Old Vic)
Hamilton (Victoria Palace Theatre)
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre)
Holding Fire! (Shakespeare's Globe)
The Importance of Being Earnest
James and the Giant Peach (Polka Theatre)
Jersey Boys (Piccadilly Theatre)
Lights Off (The University of Birmingham Guild of Students)
The Masque of the Red Death (Punchdrunk at Battersea Arts Centre)
The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre)
Popcorn (The University of Birmingham Guild of Students)
The Smile Off Your Face (Ontroerend Goed)
Stomp
Tristan & Yseult (Kneehigh at Shakespeare's Globe)
The Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre)
Acting in my local theatre company as a teenager

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