Tom Brown
Primary tabs
I have 265 stories published in
24 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 335863 times
and 18 of my stories have been cherry picked.
387 of my 2,796 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 388 votes

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 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.
I have begun to study mathematics and its applications again, and look forward to be involved in formal research and teaching.
God is in the details of the details. God is in the timing of the timing.
All's well that endds well!
Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2019
All's well that ends well!
Read full commentPosted in Someone's Son Epilogue
Looks like I've got a lot of catching up to do!
Posted on Mon, 29 Jul 2019
Looks like I've got a lot of catching up to do!
Cheers Richard! Tom Brown
Read full commentPosted in Someone's Son Chapter17
I know how it
Posted on Wed, 10 Jul 2019
I know how it feels Richard, you don't know what you've got 'till its gone. Hard times. Like a cowboy & western hey?
All the best! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Baby, Come Home
Bottles break homes
Posted on Sat, 15 Dec 2018
Bottles break homes.
Read full commentPosted in In Vino Veritas
Gentle. Do you know
Posted on Mon, 27 May 2019
Gentle. Do you know the poem "on the marraige of a virgin" by Dylan Thomas? One of my favourite lines "the moment of a miracle is unending lightning".
Or what about Madonna for that matter! Tom
PS. Thomas Edison said women are like...
Read full commentPosted in Sensual World
Great adventure
Posted on Sun, 19 May 2019
Great adventure, the dawn sun reflected in the water's mirror! Reminds me of my own youth the thrill of alive!
Read full commentPosted in At Lake Babine BC
Joseph's many coloured dreamcoat hey?
Posted on Sun, 14 Apr 2019
Joseph's many coloured dreamcoat hey? You are a granddad Richard? I believe you have mentioned it so before.
Keep well! Tom
Read full commentPosted in She Looks Great
Lovely! A dreamlike
Posted on Thu, 11 Apr 2019
Lovely! A dreamlike contemplative mood. A childlike wonder!
Your poems make me feel happy. Tom Brown
Read full commentPosted in Cone Of Enlightenment
ssshh!
Posted on Sat, 06 Apr 2019
ssshh!
Read full commentPosted in The Sins of the Fathers
Heaven
Posted on Sun, 31 Mar 2013
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and...
Read full commentPosted in Confession Of Faith
Pages