There's a discussion going on in Boot Camp about whether serious-fiction writers are limited in their subject matter.
I answered with this list of stories/subjects (about a quarter of my ouvre)
1939, four sisters, a rogue screwing them all.
An old soldier on the train to London has a heart attack.
A wide boy with money meets a classy PA for sex.
A once-international grandfather with heart trouble has the chance to see three grandsons play at The Arms Park
A man reflects on pornography v love both as metaphors for literature
A baker and his supervisor vie for a widow's heart in wartime London
A bitter divorcee drives across America, a lump growing in his hand.
A mental patient, once abused, talks to her dead mother.
A man is posessed every day for a week by a different writer
A man inherits impossible riches and starts a company to search for the end of the rainbow
An uptight accountant who always wears grey starts to crack...
A man, on his 50th goes in search of his first love (a bitch) and meets her daughter
A strange man discovers a wall with sticks protruding, messages...
A pizza delivery boy mercy-kills a ballerina who has a tumour
A man and his son on a mountain top, below a dark fog obliterates
A woman discovers she has an illness, seduces a lighthouse keeper
Some children make crossbows to murder a tramp
Briefly, the inhabitants of a street become weightless
The last but one living member of the 1966 World Cup team writes...
A writer meets his great grandfather's bastard son
A boy starts carrying schoolmates, 1, 2, 3, 4, more, then...
A man believes someone is living in his garage
A young man, desperate for first sex, the day Kennedy died.
A prostitute falls for Custer, a few days before Little Big Horn
A boy writes to the girls who do his laundry
A cow becomes a sentient being as it walks to the slaughterhouse
A wife has taken pills, her husband sleeps next to her...
A fading writer meets an old pupil
A possessed (or?) mexican falls in love in the asylum, she dies, he runs.
A business man is trapped underground with the terrorist who set the bomb
A man goes back home to try and understand why he keeps fucking up
A man on a bus meets the dead Denis Potter
A woman leaves her husband and six children, finds herself, returns.
An "aesthete" falls down a well. his spirit guide is coarse...
A man at lunch mishears a woman, thinks it's a sexual advance
After a shooting, one man starts a crusade to get rid of guns
A crazy group of idiots try new things with fatal results
Two brothers agree to fight to the death for insurance money
A baby, just before it's born, sees how far it can crawl...
A woman meets a martian, now THIS is sex
A crash survivor is jealous of another's press
William Shakespeare 2006 speaks to his agent
A White guy and a pakistani become friends
A private investigator in Hell...
A philosphical question, what are we after we are ut back together?
A woman is raped, and "ruined"
A writer has a stroke. Should the reader save him?
A hostage taker in the local gym.
A man follows the route decided by his dead brother
A man is stalked by a killer. Or is he?
An almost-rape and then a murder. Hypocrisy.
A bar-maid is courted over ten years by a customer
An archeologist gets the ultimate revenge when he is cuckolded.
The women in the office conspire for payback...
A man is seduced by America, then killed by it.
A man surfs souls at night...
A terminally ill man talks to a barmaid
A football match, the crowd starts chanting seig heil!
A man in mid-life travels to an island to die, almost saved by love
A Nobel prize-winner remembers his awkward teens, his first wife
A woman begins to morph into a giant hamster
A man in a Persistent Vegetative State dreams or time-travels?
A pissed off sentient cat writes to an editor...
A yuppie befriends an odd-job man, changes
The devil spams Frank, because he wants to apologise
A man with post-traumatic stress buries his mother in law...
An assisted suicide in a Montreaux Clinic, reflections on being alive
A man thinks his father abused his sister, maybe.
A boy hero, but the reward is cruel
An accountant working for the Devil...
A child KNOWS Santa is real...
Four widowers go fishing in Brighton, and...
The diary of the last survivor in Antarctica...
The servant, the Lord of the manor, the children...
A man obsesses over a cat, loses a woman
A Russian-American brings his wayward son to granddad...
Two double glazing men, one is being seduced by his daughter
A negotiator works the blurred edges between humans and ghouls
A woman finally released from jail, can she rebuild her life?
An Iraqui boy, a photographer, lots of dead Americans...
An Englishman is conned via the internet, murders...
Wales 2050 and the annual sacrifice of a singer...
A writer recalls when he set fire to a woman's dress...
An old man, a young one, some workers, play football in the sun
A depressed man tries to teach his son to fly a kite
Two runners, betrayal, one dies
A man reflects on how little he cares about his sister dying
A crazy story about a manic writing group in Halifax, a gas-leak...
A missionary loses his wife and child to crocodile attack
Lady Diana's murder...
A toilet inhabited by a malevolent ghost
A world where people want dogs, children are substitutes for the real thing
A writer pisses on a stack of J K Rowling books
A city broker has a secret room.
A letter from the dead husband...
A traditionalist wants REAL measurements back
A man comes home, senses his wife's lover has just left.
A wedding goes gloriously wrong
A very strange roomance at a motorway service station
The devil offers women a way...
The US governent starts kidnapping midgets.
Two hostages try to keep their pecker up thinking of British things
How a tsunami survivor survied
An old man reflects on his mentor, a mining disaster...
A soldier writes to his wife, he's been a coward and...
A granddad watching kids' soccer, rushes on to the pitch...
A fireman returns from holiday. Only his children are alive...
Four disabled soldiers run a marathon
A man reflects on underwear and life
A woman has a magic credit card.
A woman gets lost in the jungle and discovers chocolate
A waster, on the road, but she's pregnant...
A woman is discovered by the "age police"
A man-hunting woman reflects on her bad luck
A man who lost his wife and child sets out round the world.
Marilyn Monroe went into hiding, now she really Is dying.
An inarticulate man reflects on his bad love-luck
A story about the woman who couldn't say no
A wild story about a Latvian woman and her lovers
An allegory, prairie dog life
A questionaire, but really about love.
A black guy almost makes it
Her husband has a heart attack watching grandstand, she lets him die, it's better.
A man falls into an open grave...
A child is walking towards a paedophile's open door
A boy falls into a ditch full of thorns, and...
A guy meets Marilyn the day she decides to aim for the big time
A British family at home, the daughter's husband has been sentenced to fifty years in an African jail...
Heaven, and Judas is one of the good guys...?
A man cannot understand why he doesn't have strong feelings for...
He's running away, finds a wrecked car on a mountain road...
Soldiers reflect on small blessings
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