Tom Brown

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I have 205 stories published in 21 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 161957 times and 9 of my stories have been cherry picked.
277 of my 2,052 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 282 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

Mr P and Mr B

There I fell in love with his daughter but soon found him much more interesting company. Since my friends and those guys said he was a master “ 'n...
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Total Artificial Reality

There are already beginnings of crude attempts of “virtual reality”. With the advent of more and more powerful computing machines and video and sound...

Clean Science Fiction

These are short essays written on just a few proposed new ideas for scifi stories. The contributions are speculative of nature they are pure or clean...

Waking into Dreams

In a dream, in sleep, you might realise you are dreaming and wake up but your body is still asleep you can in reality not physically move. It can...

Sleep Paralysis

Night terrors are really terrifying and somehow always seem to come together with personal spiritual struggles in some religious setting and often...

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277 of my comments have received 282 Great Feedback votes

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Rainbow sighting!

Posted on Mon, 01 Jan 2018

We had some rain near Pretoria the weekend and there was a rainbow. The sky was a powdery blue and everything fresh of the rain, the colours beautiful vivid and bright.

It lingered for long it was complete the whole bow as if planted. You...

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This is exactly like I

Posted on Sat, 12 Oct 2019

This is exactly like I also feel in the morning Itane. Hate it too, getup and go!! GoGo! For me staying awake comes a lot more naturally. And as late as you please. Share your wishes too it's very deep all this one must sleep over it.

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Posted in Eagerly awakening

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Maybe I'll try!

Posted on Sat, 07 Sep 2019

Maybe I'll try! See you Richard!

Tom Brown

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Posted in Hush at Last

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International Youth Science Fortnight

Posted on Thu, 12 Sep 2019

Yes Rhiannon I attended the international youth science fortnight in London in 1983 I could attend because I had a top place in our National Science Olympiad. The next year I achieved an even higher place but was unable to attend again.

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A lovely sketch of sleep

Posted on Sat, 07 Sep 2019

A lovely sketch of sleep and peace, which I think in the end is what we all really long for.

Keep well Richard! Peaceful sleep, sweet sleep!

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Posted in Hush at Last

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Very appropriate Richard!

Posted on Sat, 31 Aug 2019

Very appropriate Richard! Today is Spring day down south!

1 September

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Posted in Wind at My Back

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Good. I will check them out.

Posted on Tue, 27 Aug 2019

Good. I will check them out.

Goodnight!

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Posted in Trails

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You must have a lot

Posted on Tue, 27 Aug 2019

You must have a lot of patience Richard. Live and let live hey? Must be a calling caring for the elderly.

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Terrible

Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2019

Terrible. Unstoppable. Inevitable. A very nice poem, in a nutshell!

All the best! Tom Brown

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The Amazon rainforests

Posted on Sat, 17 Aug 2019

The Amazon rainforests' wildlife you may stand a chance Luigi but you can forget about it's tribes. The western way of life the greed and yearning for comfort and ease is taking over everywhere. It seems unstoppable. As for the planting of trees...

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Posted in Mark My Words

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