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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 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 three 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
Publications (all online except Talking Back, which is available from Aqueduct Press):
"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
"Flower Power" - The Written Word and Anthology Builder
Coming soon: "Abaddon, Dark Angel of the Abyss" - Fear and Trembling
Writing Description
My writing can be described as salt and pepper grey, bearded, six feet tall, and honest almost to a fault. No, wait, that's my husband... I write with total subjectivity; my readers find themselves fully encased inside the head and heart of whoever is the POV character. I tend to mix social, religious, and scientific themes--which, I just 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
I plan to write a chapter per week of my dark fantasy novel in progress, Men of Blood. This is the story of a priest who becomes a vampire in Klondike gold rush era Seattle. Two selections from this novel have received honorable mention from the Speculative Literature Foundation.
I will definitely urge people to contribute to the write-a-thon on my Livejournal. I will also send out emails to people I know and try to get it publicized in my local arts organization newsletter.
Website
My blog is countesslovlace.livejournal.com.
