Tom Brown

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I have 229 stories published in 21 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 197852 times and 16 of my stories have been cherry picked.
320 of my 2,329 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 322 votes

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Tom Brown

Apart from studies in the natural sciences I am interested in languages and literature in general as well as religion. Lately I have been writing more popular general interest essays and also trying for a bit of balance with mathematics and while keeping things understandable for most people.

I am South-African born and bred. At high school I excelled in science and mathematics competitions and completed two years of mechanical engineering with very good results. That didn't work out due to ill health. I have had permanent teaching positions at Unisa and at Wits.

Graduating with an MSc under WK Bartoszek (Unisa 1997) and a PhD under N Sauer (Pretoria 2006) formal interests would be in abstract analysis: Markov operators and stochastic processes; vector valued Laplace transforms applied to semigroups and families of evolution equations (empathies). It has now been quite a while since I was academically active I don't have much published. The way things have developed was beyond my control and I am very isolated.

Favourite authors are Jules Verne, HG Wells and Jack London, Shakespeare and poets William Blake and Dylan Thomas. I like adventure, science fiction and fantasy movies my all time greatest are the Narnia stories and the Lord of the Rings.

The meal best enjoyed is a breakfast of bacon eggs on toast fried chips with fresh orange juice, and for supper an ox-tail stew. I like eating out romantic. For recreation nature hikes, camping and fishing, listening to good music and reading, classics mostly, and good movies. I love dogs my best one was a Maltese poodle Freddy. I love rain and lightning thunderstorms and rainbows. As well as writing and publishing here on Abctales.

God is in the details. God is in the timing.

My stories

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Matchbox-cars and Lucky Packets

“There was a saviour, rarer than radium, Commoner than water, crueller than truth.” – Dylan Thomas - In my bed going to sleep sometimes I imagined a...

Dreams and Reality

Dreams and interpreting dreams gives insight into the inner workings of the unconscious mind. There are different kinds of dreams and analysis, you...

UFOs Aliens and Cover-ups

Typically stories are of alien abduction or infiltration and eminent attack with the earth and mankind in great peril, UFOs Bermuda Triangle, Area 51...
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Dreams Mathematics and Chess

It seems I dream mostly of people, all kinds of people I knew. Does make sense I have had no contact I know how it feels for years and years just my...

Two Rainbows

Just now after a summer shower we saw a rainbow it was very low because it was still early afternoon. It was beautiful the sun was still quite high...
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320 of my comments have received 322 Great Feedback votes

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I got lost twice since a long time

Posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2022

I got lost twice since a long time it was terribly scary. The one time was in bush sea bushes at the sea God spared me nothing else. The first one I can remember was in primary school. Another was weird tunnels behind across the walkway of a...

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Posted in Lost and Found

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Sorry Di I honestly did not mean

Posted on Sun, 06 Feb 2022

Sorry Di I honestly did not mean to criticise your work at all and I don't recall that I ever have. It is a great poem. But please keep in mind any good teacher knows one often learns more from your mistakes and by the way I'm also out of a job....

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Posted in February Rainbow

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Yes

Posted on Tue, 14 Sep 2021

Yes. Beautiful ending, man's best friend. Heartbreaking sometimes we feel a duty for mourning. And indeed, it is much more noble to live for someone than to die for someone, sometimes living takes great courage.

Keep well Paul! Tom

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Posted in With or Without You

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No doubt inspired

Posted on Mon, 16 Mar 2020

No doubt inspired by Jules Verne's classic scifi novel 20,000 leagues under the sea. Also makes one think of Jacques C. and the research ship the Calypso.

Good work, original too! We are in, looking out, man and fish roles reversed! Who's...

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Posted in Here Be Dragons

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it's good to be young

Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014

It's good to be young and insane.

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Posted in Mental Illness

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Clever, Jerry

Posted on Thu, 29 Feb 2024

Clever, Jerry! "Today when we go to the zoo we often look at the great apes in their cages and wonder if they think "am I my keeper's brother?" Very funny! And true.

Interesting how the story drifts as you go along.

Cheers! Tom...

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Posted in The First Murder

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Very interesting Jenny

Posted on Sun, 25 Feb 2024

Very interesting Jenny, a strange world to me. I like the Afrikaans word "trekked" ! Why did you type it all in bold it's a bit harsh on the eye?

Good to see you writing, hope you're well! All the best! Tom

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Posted in The Fish Hawker

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Your painting

Posted on Wed, 21 Feb 2024

Your painting looks like the Dawn Trader, you know of the Narnia stories. The poem is compact it's not so easy to read, but excellent.

And "gold was made for going to for dreams of coming from, which with any luck will never come true...

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Posted in The Long Call

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Good Stuff!

Posted on Sat, 17 Feb 2024

Checked out your user page just now there is a lot of new work will take a while to read all of it. Luckily your stories are not long they are quite manageable. Brilliant! I didn't really know of it you've been so busy with the comments. You are...

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Posted in UFOs Aliens and Cover-ups

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The story feels rather violent

Posted on Sat, 17 Feb 2024

The story feels rather violent a restraining order should do, but I know how it feels believe me. Anyway the gun under your bed might help you deal with aggression I don't know. Just don't go to a nursery school and shoot some kids. And I don't...

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Posted in Killing the killers

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