Beth Adele Long
Beth Adele Long currently lives and writes in Cocoa, Florida, after living in Maryland, Israel, Daytona Beach, and Peru. She is a graduate of the Clarion Writers' Workshop and has been a guest writer at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. She is currently co-editor and co-publisher of the lit zine Turbocharged Fortune Cookie. During her time at the Kerouac House, she will be working on her current novel, a surrealistic "meaning-of-life thriller" about a mechanical man, a harlequin assassin, and a gypsy drummer.
Here is another excerpt from my novel-in-progress
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006For three days she walked, setting out at dawn and stopping to rest during the hot hours around noon. The sun arced over her from right to left, sometimes hiding behind the clouds that scuttled across the sky. By the end of the second day, traffic on the road had dwindled to the occasional farmer or traveling vendor. The afternoon of the third day, a spindly truck, all axles and exposed supports, growled …
This is a brief excerpt from the first chapter of my novel-in-progress
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006As daylight’s glare faded from her eyes, Alakina watched the clocktower’s interior take on visible form. Shafts of dusty light, admitted by gaps in brick and plaster, crisscrossed the tower and intersected a hanging rope ladder. The ladder’s base swung lazily at head level, inaccessible to anyone with insufficient strength or agility to leap and climb. High above, massive clock trains glinted in the occasional light.
She wrapped her mask around …
