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Mark Brown was editor of www.ABCtales.com from April 2003 until May 2006. In this role, he was responsible for nurturing non-professional writers and enabling them to progress with their practice of creative writing.


This work also encompassed Talecatching, an innovative programme that uses volunteers to act as creative mentors to people who are socially excluded, enabling them to produce creative writing that represents them and share it with the wider community.


He is currently Development Director of Social Spider, the not-for-profit design, communication and social action agency http://www.socialspider.com


In September 2006, Mark challenged himself to spend a year writing short stories that were exactly 200 words in length.


If you like his writing, please tell him. If you don't, make a point of telling him so, forcefully.


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Right now, I have 92 stories in 4 collections on the site. My stories have been read 85166 times and 62 of my stories have been cherry picked

My Stories

Remains

Submitted on March 30, 2008 - 17:54 | 350 reads

I'll Tell You Some Things About Death

Submitted on January 4, 2008 - 03:35 | 573 reads

Goodnight Kiss

Submitted on September 26, 2007 - 22:57 | 538 reads

Finished

Submitted on September 26, 2007 - 00:51 | 488 reads

Art will Save the World

Submitted on September 24, 2007 - 23:37 | 701 reads

A Letter to a Sailor

Submitted on September 23, 2007 - 21:33 | 551 reads

The Fox

Submitted on September 23, 2007 - 01:40 | 497 reads

There is no Epiphany

Submitted on September 22, 2007 - 00:53 | 462 reads

Track 16: Typical Girls by The Slits

Submitted on September 17, 2007 - 00:43 | 507 reads

Track 15: Bingo Master's Breakout by The Fall

Submitted on September 16, 2007 - 03:29 | 518 reads

Track 14: Space Junk by Devo

Submitted on September 13, 2007 - 00:30 | 600 reads

Track 13: Blue Boy by Orange Juice

Submitted on September 11, 2007 - 00:14 | 565 reads

Track 12: Knife Slits Water by A Certain Ratio

Submitted on September 2, 2007 - 01:20 | 588 reads

Track 11: Bibbly-O-Tek by Scritti Politti

Submitted on September 1, 2007 - 14:05 | 539 reads

Track 10: Mind Your Own Business by Delta 5

Submitted on September 1, 2007 - 01:34 | 548 reads

Track 9: The Dignity of Labour Part 1 by The Human League

Submitted on August 26, 2007 - 00:29 | 630 reads

For One Night Only

Submitted on August 19, 2007 - 23:14 | 666 reads

Lovely Drizzle

Submitted on August 19, 2007 - 00:53 | 640 reads

I Gave You Stones for Your Pockets

Submitted on August 18, 2007 - 01:51 | 544 reads

Protect Me from What I Desire Most

Submitted on August 12, 2007 - 20:49 | 712 reads

Two Eves

Submitted on August 7, 2007 - 01:05 | 505 reads

Rendezvous

Submitted on August 5, 2007 - 19:14 | 607 reads

The Collection

Submitted on July 21, 2007 - 23:32 | 519 reads

First Touch

Submitted on July 15, 2007 - 21:40 | 603 reads

An Old Man's Photographs

Submitted on July 14, 2007 - 23:42 | 732 reads

Performance

Submitted on July 10, 2007 - 23:39 | 597 reads

A 21st Century Romance

Submitted on July 5, 2007 - 00:21 | 823 reads

Safari

Submitted on June 30, 2007 - 17:01 | 670 reads

A World without Airships

Submitted on June 29, 2007 - 19:58 | 523 reads

Ask

Submitted on June 28, 2007 - 23:41 | 673 reads

The Fisher King

Submitted on June 10, 2007 - 23:55 | 751 reads

Columbo

Submitted on June 10, 2007 - 01:44 | 661 reads

Friends Reunited

Submitted on May 28, 2007 - 22:33 | 754 reads

May Day Bank Holiday

Submitted on May 19, 2007 - 17:55 | 627 reads

Money Changes Everything

Submitted on May 8, 2007 - 23:58 | 767 reads

The Art of Conversation

Submitted on May 5, 2007 - 23:08 | 746 reads

Roman

Submitted on May 3, 2007 - 00:06 | 796 reads

A Hillside is not a Comprehensive School

Submitted on April 30, 2007 - 23:39 | 813 reads

The Domestic

Submitted on April 29, 2007 - 17:48 | 736 reads

"Fever For You"

Submitted on April 22, 2007 - 15:47 | 1063 reads

Retreat

Submitted on April 14, 2007 - 15:54 | 700 reads

Kitsune

Submitted on April 3, 2007 - 00:08 | 795 reads

Be My Baby

Submitted on April 1, 2007 - 16:31 | 973 reads

The Other Woman

Submitted on March 20, 2007 - 01:12 | 940 reads

Track 8: At Home He's a Tourist by Gang of Four

Submitted on March 7, 2007 - 00:55 | 822 reads

I Was Delia Derbyshire's Lover

Submitted on February 11, 2007 - 23:25 | 919 reads

Absence

Submitted on February 8, 2007 - 01:20 | 1068 reads

Track 7: Work All Week by Mekons

Submitted on January 26, 2007 - 00:52 | 979 reads

Track 6: Isolation by Joy Division

Submitted on January 7, 2007 - 21:50 | 1059 reads

Track 5: Because You're Frightened by Magazine

Submitted on January 6, 2007 - 18:11 | 1077 reads

Track 4: No Side To Fall In by The Raincoats

Submitted on January 4, 2007 - 02:11 | 846 reads

Track 3: Born Under Punches (The Beat Goes On) by Talking Heads

Submitted on December 14, 2006 - 23:14 | 1002 reads

Track 2: Map Ref. 41 deg N 93 deg W by Wire

Submitted on December 10, 2006 - 18:33 | 1048 reads

Track 1: Final Day by Young Marble Giants

Submitted on December 6, 2006 - 00:06 | 990 reads

Empty Space

Submitted on December 3, 2006 - 22:42 | 885 reads

Transference

Submitted on November 26, 2006 - 02:47 | 845 reads

Only Connect

Submitted on November 26, 2006 - 02:12 | 937 reads

Losing Ground

Submitted on November 19, 2006 - 22:41 | 951 reads

One Evening during Late Capitalism

Submitted on November 15, 2006 - 23:10 | 788 reads

Niqab

Submitted on November 14, 2006 - 00:20 | 1137 reads

Home for Christmas

Submitted on November 11, 2006 - 21:33 | 937 reads

Trick or Treat

Submitted on November 1, 2006 - 16:21 | 1026 reads

Beyond the End

Submitted on October 23, 2006 - 15:24 | 960 reads

Fever to Tell

Submitted on October 12, 2006 - 23:32 | 1066 reads

Kenidjack

Submitted on October 10, 2006 - 19:51 | 925 reads

Lose This Skin

Submitted on October 9, 2006 - 16:58 | 1065 reads

Matryoshka

Submitted on October 6, 2006 - 17:27 | 924 reads

The Night of the Funeral

Submitted on October 5, 2006 - 15:17 | 947 reads

PresentSelf was right.

Submitted on October 4, 2006 - 12:22 | 934 reads

My Heroic Self Is Disappointed.

Submitted on October 3, 2006 - 16:36 | 1024 reads

Ullswater

Submitted on September 26, 2006 - 16:29 | 1298 reads

Z - Twenty

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 04:15 | 2176 reads

X) Careful

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 03:51 | 1136 reads

Visiting

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 01:31 | 1197 reads

W) The Cows

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 11:07 | 1581 reads

Telling Tales

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 01:04 | 1151 reads

Unbecoming.

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 01:57 | 1135 reads

Something Changed

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 12:47 | 1274 reads

Q) Global ABC: Hit The North

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 04:40 | 1174 reads

Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 14:15 | 1065 reads

One Saturday

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 00:46 | 1117 reads

Losing Friends

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 01:49 | 2088 reads

Me Mam and Dad

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 14:16 | 2149 reads

Journey Into The Unknown!

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 01:26 | 1275 reads

I Am An Insect

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 13:27 | 1586 reads

F**k The Millennium

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 13:31 | 1892 reads

Getting To Know Your Town

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 13:28 | 1108 reads

Extracts

Submitted on November 2, 2004 - 15:43 | 1191 reads

Best Mates

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 02:14 | 1769 reads

Can Never Go Back

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 02:44 | 1185 reads

A Comic Aside

Submitted on November 2, 2004 - 14:47 | 1664 reads

I wish I had time to write

Submitted on September 29, 2004 - 00:16 | 1203 reads