Excerpt
Bone-Finger was still trying to rise up from underground. Removing the bayonet from his rifle, he ripped at the roots which pinioned him. Grigor and a Bulgarian recruit, Yotov, grabbed him under the arms and dragged him away. Bone-Finger’s upper body went along, but the rest of him remained stuck in the ground. Bullets shot away Yotov’s arm and Bone-finger’s head, which shouted a cloud of Hungarian profanities once it stopped rolling.
Grigor scooped up the head.
“Keep running,” shouted Bone-Finger.
Grigor complied. “What about your body?”
“You mean Mueller? Who cares about him? They can stick me on someone else’s shoulders.”
from "The Immortal Grenadiers and the Hawaiian Guitar"
Bio
Ada Milenkovic Brown is a semiprofessional lyric-coloratura soprano who used to teach microbiology to medical students and remains torn between art and science. A 2005 Clarion West Writers Workshop graduate, her work has appeared in Intergalactic Medicine Show, PodCastle, and Crossed Genres. She has also been short-listed multiple times for the Speculative Literature Foundation Older Writers Grant. Visit her at accordingto_ada.livejournal.com.
Publications
"Nadirah Sends Her Love," Crossed Genres
"Abaddon, Dark Angel of the Abyss," Fear and Trembling
"Kafka Respun," Transcriptase
"Wisteria," InterGalactic Medicine Show and Podcastle
"Flower Power," Written Word
"Letter to Sophia," Talking Back: Epistolary Fantasies (Aqueduct Press)
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
To revise a story or chapter a week.
Website
accordingto_ada.livejournal.com
