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Family blogs & websites

• My films & screenwriting blog
• My mum's colour therapy site
• My dad's canal boating site
• My daughter's fairy godmother's art site
• My wife's blog (retired)
• Our blog about our daughters (retired)

Pages from the old FICTION on the WEB site (archived)

• Poems
• Drabbles
• King of Games
• Livewire
• Number Puzzles
• Books that have changed my life

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