Łukasz Drobnik
Łukasz Drobnik is a Polish fiction writer writing mostly in English, author of genre-bending books, VOSTOK, RIVERINE, and NOCTURINE, as well as shorter prose published in Split Lip Magazine, HAD, Fractured Lit, Atticus Review, Quarterly West, Pithead Chapel, Lighthouse, STORGY, BULL, Foglifter, X‑R‑A‑Y Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. His writing was longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Kraków, Poland.
Below you can find a FULL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and READ some of his pieces.
email: drobniklukasz [at] gmail [dot] com
The end of the world starts like an ad campaign. When black cubes appear above the city of Poznań, some think it’s just another mobile network operator entering the market. These include Mietek, an unemployed man in his twenties, suddenly abandoned by his boyfriend. Soon his best friend also disappears while the black cubes in the sky start to multiply, taking up more and more of the urban space.
NOCTURINE is a novella that takes you on a genre-bending journey from contemporary Poznań devoured by an 8-bit amoeba to a house comprised of countless floors, to a homestead haunted by dummies, to the inside of a human body. Each of six pieces is told by a different narrator in a frantic yet melancholic style.
A couple goes to a supermarket in Earth’s final days. An unrequited love turns into a lifelong friendship. A bacterium fights against being devoured by a leukocyte. Polish queer people start an insurrection to take over their homeland. A woman gets trapped in a loop of tending to her abusive husband.
RIVERINE is a collection of 25 short-shorts that oscillate between the literary and the speculative. Microscopic or cosmic in scope, encompassing millions of years or just a few seconds, these stories strive to find hope even in the bleakest places.
You can buy RIVERINE in a PAPER format.
