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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.


If you'd like to, you could be Mark's friend on Facebook: http://profile.to/MarkBrown1977/



Right now, I have 92 stories in 4 collections on the site. My stories have been read 94302 times and 62 of my stories have been cherry picked

My Stories

Remains

Submitted on March 30, 2008 - 17:54 | 428 reads

I'll Tell You Some Things About Death

Submitted on January 4, 2008 - 03:35 | 653 reads

Goodnight Kiss

Submitted on September 26, 2007 - 22:57 | 646 reads

Finished

Submitted on September 26, 2007 - 00:51 | 583 reads

Art will Save the World

Submitted on September 24, 2007 - 23:37 | 830 reads

A Letter to a Sailor

Submitted on September 23, 2007 - 21:33 | 678 reads

The Fox

Submitted on September 23, 2007 - 01:40 | 602 reads

There is no Epiphany

Submitted on September 22, 2007 - 00:53 | 548 reads

Track 16: Typical Girls by The Slits

Submitted on September 17, 2007 - 00:43 | 584 reads

Track 15: Bingo Master's Breakout by The Fall

Submitted on September 16, 2007 - 03:29 | 597 reads

Track 14: Space Junk by Devo

Submitted on September 13, 2007 - 00:30 | 684 reads

Track 13: Blue Boy by Orange Juice

Submitted on September 11, 2007 - 00:14 | 652 reads

Track 12: Knife Slits Water by A Certain Ratio

Submitted on September 2, 2007 - 01:20 | 671 reads

Track 11: Bibbly-O-Tek by Scritti Politti

Submitted on September 1, 2007 - 14:05 | 620 reads

Track 10: Mind Your Own Business by Delta 5

Submitted on September 1, 2007 - 01:34 | 635 reads

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

Submitted on August 26, 2007 - 00:29 | 711 reads

For One Night Only

Submitted on August 19, 2007 - 23:14 | 787 reads

Lovely Drizzle

Submitted on August 19, 2007 - 00:53 | 755 reads

I Gave You Stones for Your Pockets

Submitted on August 18, 2007 - 01:51 | 661 reads

Protect Me from What I Desire Most

Submitted on August 12, 2007 - 20:49 | 829 reads

Two Eves

Submitted on August 7, 2007 - 01:05 | 583 reads

Rendezvous

Submitted on August 5, 2007 - 19:14 | 686 reads

The Collection

Submitted on July 21, 2007 - 23:32 | 599 reads

First Touch

Submitted on July 15, 2007 - 21:40 | 704 reads

An Old Man's Photographs

Submitted on July 14, 2007 - 23:42 | 859 reads

Performance

Submitted on July 10, 2007 - 23:39 | 696 reads

A 21st Century Romance

Submitted on July 5, 2007 - 00:21 | 979 reads

Safari

Submitted on June 30, 2007 - 17:01 | 769 reads

A World without Airships

Submitted on June 29, 2007 - 19:58 | 623 reads

Ask

Submitted on June 28, 2007 - 23:41 | 782 reads

The Fisher King

Submitted on June 10, 2007 - 23:55 | 900 reads

Columbo

Submitted on June 10, 2007 - 01:44 | 775 reads

Friends Reunited

Submitted on May 28, 2007 - 22:33 | 867 reads

May Day Bank Holiday

Submitted on May 19, 2007 - 17:55 | 723 reads

Money Changes Everything

Submitted on May 8, 2007 - 23:58 | 878 reads

The Art of Conversation

Submitted on May 5, 2007 - 23:08 | 853 reads

Roman

Submitted on May 3, 2007 - 00:06 | 907 reads

A Hillside is not a Comprehensive School

Submitted on April 30, 2007 - 23:39 | 931 reads

The Domestic

Submitted on April 29, 2007 - 17:48 | 836 reads

"Fever For You"

Submitted on April 22, 2007 - 15:47 | 1248 reads

Retreat

Submitted on April 14, 2007 - 15:54 | 792 reads

Kitsune

Submitted on April 3, 2007 - 00:08 | 882 reads

Be My Baby

Submitted on April 1, 2007 - 16:31 | 1095 reads

The Other Woman

Submitted on March 20, 2007 - 01:12 | 1042 reads

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

Submitted on March 7, 2007 - 00:55 | 896 reads

I Was Delia Derbyshire's Lover

Submitted on February 11, 2007 - 23:25 | 1020 reads

Absence

Submitted on February 8, 2007 - 01:20 | 1202 reads

Track 7: Work All Week by Mekons

Submitted on January 26, 2007 - 00:52 | 1064 reads

Track 6: Isolation by Joy Division

Submitted on January 7, 2007 - 21:50 | 1148 reads

Track 5: Because You're Frightened by Magazine

Submitted on January 6, 2007 - 18:11 | 1154 reads

Track 4: No Side To Fall In by The Raincoats

Submitted on January 4, 2007 - 02:11 | 923 reads

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

Submitted on December 14, 2006 - 23:14 | 1099 reads

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

Submitted on December 10, 2006 - 18:33 | 1130 reads

Track 1: Final Day by Young Marble Giants

Submitted on December 6, 2006 - 00:06 | 1076 reads

Empty Space

Submitted on December 3, 2006 - 22:42 | 1008 reads

Transference

Submitted on November 26, 2006 - 02:47 | 936 reads

Only Connect

Submitted on November 26, 2006 - 02:12 | 1038 reads

Losing Ground

Submitted on November 19, 2006 - 22:41 | 1051 reads

One Evening during Late Capitalism

Submitted on November 15, 2006 - 23:10 | 864 reads

Niqab

Submitted on November 14, 2006 - 00:20 | 1264 reads

Home for Christmas

Submitted on November 11, 2006 - 21:33 | 1076 reads

Trick or Treat

Submitted on November 1, 2006 - 16:21 | 1128 reads

Beyond the End

Submitted on October 23, 2006 - 15:24 | 1060 reads

Fever to Tell

Submitted on October 12, 2006 - 23:32 | 1177 reads

Kenidjack

Submitted on October 10, 2006 - 19:51 | 1007 reads

Lose This Skin

Submitted on October 9, 2006 - 16:58 | 1166 reads

Matryoshka

Submitted on October 6, 2006 - 17:27 | 1035 reads

The Night of the Funeral

Submitted on October 5, 2006 - 15:17 | 1055 reads

PresentSelf was right.

Submitted on October 4, 2006 - 12:22 | 1019 reads

My Heroic Self Is Disappointed.

Submitted on October 3, 2006 - 16:36 | 1137 reads

Ullswater

Submitted on September 26, 2006 - 16:29 | 1405 reads

Z - Twenty

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 04:15 | 2263 reads

X) Careful

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 03:51 | 1207 reads

Visiting

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 01:31 | 1263 reads

W) The Cows

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 11:07 | 1654 reads

Telling Tales

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 01:04 | 1219 reads

Unbecoming.

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 01:57 | 1210 reads

Something Changed

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 12:47 | 1353 reads

Q) Global ABC: Hit The North

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 04:40 | 1243 reads

Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 14:15 | 1139 reads

One Saturday

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 00:46 | 1187 reads

Losing Friends

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 01:49 | 2179 reads

Me Mam and Dad

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 14:16 | 2510 reads

Journey Into The Unknown!

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 01:26 | 1342 reads

I Am An Insect

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 13:27 | 1686 reads

F**k The Millennium

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 13:31 | 1963 reads

Getting To Know Your Town

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 13:28 | 1181 reads

Extracts

Submitted on November 2, 2004 - 15:43 | 1256 reads

Best Mates

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 02:14 | 1858 reads

Can Never Go Back

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 02:44 | 1265 reads

A Comic Aside

Submitted on November 2, 2004 - 14:47 | 1735 reads

I wish I had time to write

Submitted on September 29, 2004 - 00:16 | 1288 reads