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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 78584 times and 62 of my stories have been cherry picked

My Stories

Remains

Submitted on March 30, 2008 - 17:54 | 281 reads

I'll Tell You Some Things About Death

Submitted on January 4, 2008 - 03:35 | 510 reads

Goodnight Kiss

Submitted on September 26, 2007 - 22:57 | 453 reads

Finished

Submitted on September 26, 2007 - 00:51 | 420 reads

Art will Save the World

Submitted on September 24, 2007 - 23:37 | 603 reads

A Letter to a Sailor

Submitted on September 23, 2007 - 21:33 | 453 reads

The Fox

Submitted on September 23, 2007 - 01:40 | 419 reads

There is no Epiphany

Submitted on September 22, 2007 - 00:53 | 391 reads

Track 16: Typical Girls by The Slits

Submitted on September 17, 2007 - 00:43 | 443 reads

Track 15: Bingo Master's Breakout by The Fall

Submitted on September 16, 2007 - 03:29 | 464 reads

Track 14: Space Junk by Devo

Submitted on September 13, 2007 - 00:30 | 536 reads

Track 13: Blue Boy by Orange Juice

Submitted on September 11, 2007 - 00:14 | 500 reads

Track 12: Knife Slits Water by A Certain Ratio

Submitted on September 2, 2007 - 01:20 | 525 reads

Track 11: Bibbly-O-Tek by Scritti Politti

Submitted on September 1, 2007 - 14:05 | 477 reads

Track 10: Mind Your Own Business by Delta 5

Submitted on September 1, 2007 - 01:34 | 484 reads

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

Submitted on August 26, 2007 - 00:29 | 578 reads

For One Night Only

Submitted on August 19, 2007 - 23:14 | 580 reads

Lovely Drizzle

Submitted on August 19, 2007 - 00:53 | 565 reads

I Gave You Stones for Your Pockets

Submitted on August 18, 2007 - 01:51 | 466 reads

Protect Me from What I Desire Most

Submitted on August 12, 2007 - 20:49 | 639 reads

Two Eves

Submitted on August 7, 2007 - 01:05 | 447 reads

Rendezvous

Submitted on August 5, 2007 - 19:14 | 533 reads

The Collection

Submitted on July 21, 2007 - 23:32 | 458 reads

First Touch

Submitted on July 15, 2007 - 21:40 | 540 reads

An Old Man's Photographs

Submitted on July 14, 2007 - 23:42 | 635 reads

Performance

Submitted on July 10, 2007 - 23:39 | 529 reads

A 21st Century Romance

Submitted on July 5, 2007 - 00:21 | 716 reads

Safari

Submitted on June 30, 2007 - 17:01 | 606 reads

A World without Airships

Submitted on June 29, 2007 - 19:58 | 453 reads

Ask

Submitted on June 28, 2007 - 23:41 | 595 reads

The Fisher King

Submitted on June 10, 2007 - 23:55 | 670 reads

Columbo

Submitted on June 10, 2007 - 01:44 | 587 reads

Friends Reunited

Submitted on May 28, 2007 - 22:33 | 675 reads

May Day Bank Holiday

Submitted on May 19, 2007 - 17:55 | 565 reads

Money Changes Everything

Submitted on May 8, 2007 - 23:58 | 669 reads

The Art of Conversation

Submitted on May 5, 2007 - 23:08 | 675 reads

Roman

Submitted on May 3, 2007 - 00:06 | 726 reads

A Hillside is not a Comprehensive School

Submitted on April 30, 2007 - 23:39 | 742 reads

The Domestic

Submitted on April 29, 2007 - 17:48 | 666 reads

"Fever For You"

Submitted on April 22, 2007 - 15:47 | 942 reads

Retreat

Submitted on April 14, 2007 - 15:54 | 638 reads

Kitsune

Submitted on April 3, 2007 - 00:08 | 739 reads

Be My Baby

Submitted on April 1, 2007 - 16:31 | 888 reads

The Other Woman

Submitted on March 20, 2007 - 01:12 | 874 reads

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

Submitted on March 7, 2007 - 00:55 | 770 reads

I Was Delia Derbyshire's Lover

Submitted on February 11, 2007 - 23:25 | 849 reads

Absence

Submitted on February 8, 2007 - 01:20 | 970 reads

Track 7: Work All Week by Mekons

Submitted on January 26, 2007 - 00:52 | 922 reads

Track 6: Isolation by Joy Division

Submitted on January 7, 2007 - 21:50 | 998 reads

Track 5: Because You're Frightened by Magazine

Submitted on January 6, 2007 - 18:11 | 1006 reads

Track 4: No Side To Fall In by The Raincoats

Submitted on January 4, 2007 - 02:11 | 789 reads

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

Submitted on December 14, 2006 - 23:14 | 937 reads

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

Submitted on December 10, 2006 - 18:33 | 999 reads

Track 1: Final Day by Young Marble Giants

Submitted on December 6, 2006 - 00:06 | 926 reads

Empty Space

Submitted on December 3, 2006 - 22:42 | 798 reads

Transference

Submitted on November 26, 2006 - 02:47 | 784 reads

Only Connect

Submitted on November 26, 2006 - 02:12 | 866 reads

Losing Ground

Submitted on November 19, 2006 - 22:41 | 883 reads

One Evening during Late Capitalism

Submitted on November 15, 2006 - 23:10 | 728 reads

Niqab

Submitted on November 14, 2006 - 00:20 | 1064 reads

Home for Christmas

Submitted on November 11, 2006 - 21:33 | 847 reads

Trick or Treat

Submitted on November 1, 2006 - 16:21 | 949 reads

Beyond the End

Submitted on October 23, 2006 - 15:24 | 884 reads

Fever to Tell

Submitted on October 12, 2006 - 23:32 | 981 reads

Kenidjack

Submitted on October 10, 2006 - 19:51 | 867 reads

Lose This Skin

Submitted on October 9, 2006 - 16:58 | 992 reads

Matryoshka

Submitted on October 6, 2006 - 17:27 | 855 reads

The Night of the Funeral

Submitted on October 5, 2006 - 15:17 | 891 reads

PresentSelf was right.

Submitted on October 4, 2006 - 12:22 | 874 reads

My Heroic Self Is Disappointed.

Submitted on October 3, 2006 - 16:36 | 958 reads

Ullswater

Submitted on September 26, 2006 - 16:29 | 1206 reads

Z - Twenty

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 04:15 | 2087 reads

X) Careful

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 03:51 | 1075 reads

Visiting

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 01:31 | 1143 reads

W) The Cows

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 11:07 | 1533 reads

Telling Tales

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 01:04 | 1094 reads

Unbecoming.

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 01:57 | 1083 reads

Something Changed

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 12:47 | 1220 reads

Q) Global ABC: Hit The North

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 04:40 | 1118 reads

Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 14:15 | 1010 reads

One Saturday

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 00:46 | 1067 reads

Losing Friends

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 01:49 | 2016 reads

Me Mam and Dad

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 14:16 | 1929 reads

Journey Into The Unknown!

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 01:26 | 1211 reads

I Am An Insect

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 13:27 | 1502 reads

F**k The Millennium

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 13:31 | 1825 reads

Getting To Know Your Town

Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 13:28 | 1056 reads

Extracts

Submitted on November 2, 2004 - 15:43 | 1137 reads

Best Mates

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 02:14 | 1694 reads

Can Never Go Back

Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 02:44 | 1124 reads

A Comic Aside

Submitted on November 2, 2004 - 14:47 | 1588 reads

I wish I had time to write

Submitted on September 29, 2004 - 00:16 | 1124 reads