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My aim here is to bring together, as much as possible, many of the stories and poems I have written throughout my life. I'm not sure of my reasons for doing this. I think I just find it hard to throw things away, though I have to admit there were some pieces that were so embarrassingly bad that I just had to discard them.

Some of the writing here is possibly worth preserving. A lot more of it is probably not, but I'll leave that for the reader to judge (if anyone does actually bother to read this). Most of my writing was done during my adolescent years, when I must have had a lot more time on my hands. As a teenager, I was an avid reader of horror stories and science fiction, so this accounts for the style of much of the earlier material. Later I also enjoyed absurdist and surrealistic art and literature, and there is obviously a lot of material influenced by writers such as Lewis Carroll, Beckett and Ionesco.

As a child I had two ambitions: to be a writer and to make animated cartoons. The fact that I have no talent at all in drawing meant that the latter ambition had to skip a generation (though it did not stop me from attempting to illustrate some of my work.) The former ambition gave way to the realisation that I would have to earn a living and I was unlikely to do so from writing. However, I have kept up this hobby in some form or another at various times in my life. In 1999 I managed to find time to write two stories based on my travels in India several years earlier, and I have made a few minor steps in this genre since that time.

When I originally put together this anthology it was intended mainly for members of my family, though, now that the internet is available to us all, I have no idea who will actually read these stories. I will be happy if anyone else gets some pleasure from it, and would love to hear comments, whether positive or negative, from anyone out there who stumbles across this collection.


Horror Stories

Silly Stories

Childhood Stories

Children's Stories

Travel Stories








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