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Excerpt
As she examined every patch of wisteria, her eyes swam again like in the hospital. She rubbed them and looked some more and thought she saw one eye and part of a cheek above a leaf beard in the vines behind and above Garner's tombstone. She stood and reached for the place to arrange the wisteria, pulling it here and there, twisting, sometimes untwisting, until the spaces seemed to her to look more like Garner's shadow. Then she saw his whole face in the leaves and his hand reached out to her from the vines.
Bio
Ada Milenkovic Brown suspects that her early life took place in a cult-classic B movie. Part Transylvanian, she was born in a caul, an Eastern European sign of becoming a vampire, and had the additional signs of also being a werewolf. She spent her childhood waiting for her dad to come home from the lab where he created his robot and had her own mad scientist phase warping the minds of future physicians at East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine. A graduate of Clarion West 2005, her work has received four honorable mentions from the Speculative Literature Foundation. Her stories have appeared in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, PodCastle, and The Written Word and will soon appear in Fear and Trembling. She is the coordinator of the Greenville Writer's Group in North Carolina.
Publications
"Kafka Respun," Transcriptase
"Wisteria," PodCastle, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, and Anthology Builder
"Letter to Sofia,"Talking Back: Epistolary Fantasies edited by L. Timmel Duchamp, Aqueduct Press
"Flower Power," The Written Word and Anthology Builder
"Abaddon, Dark Angel of the Abyss," Fear and Trembling
Writing Description
I tend to mix social, religious, and scientific themes--which, as I learned while visiting his museum in west Florida, was what Salvador Dali was up to. Although my clocks aren't melted, they're probably doing something equally weird.
Goals
My goal is to write or revise or one chapter of my novel in progress, Blood Dance Macabre.
I will definitely urge people to contribute to the Write-a-thon on my Livejournal page. I will also send out emails to people I know and try to get it publicized in my local arts organization newsletter.
