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.
The characters in these restrained spaces crackle with light and self-awareness, and about what makes life a murky and joyful ride.
Tara Isabel Zambrano, author of Death, Desire, and Other Destinations
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These stories flow one into another, but always with a singular, stunning intensity, carrying the reader along with their unerring, devastating power.
Cathy Ulrich, author of Ghosts of You, Small Burning Things
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Drobnik is a brave, brilliant writer, showing what unites us even as he takes the cells of civilization apart.
Ross Showalter
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