NARRATOR: Little Stevie was the heavyweight of fabulous yarn-spinners. What was Bertie (the cat to the older nuisances) was a cornflake-headed lion....
SFX: LION'S ROAR
...with nine hundred lives and a noble steed in the fight against the forces of evil
MUSIC: CLASSICAL MUSIC 'In the Hall of the Mountain King'
(AKA the sprouts and other vegetables mum would make him eat). Stories, he believed, had to be magnificent. As rich as honey. (And not just the supermarket honey...
SFX: BEES
...the honey bees with octopus hands would make.) Like the stories that Stephen, now an administrator sitting in cubicle 9, can re-ignite his love for at the Dubai International Film Festival. For even if hectares of open-mindedness and chocolate forests have now been cruelly cut short by spread sheets and spell-check, it should never stop little Stevie from treasuring story-telling again.