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Łukasz Drobnik

@drobnik.co

Fiction writer, author of VOSTOK, RIVERINE & NOCTURINE. Words in Split Lip Magazine, HAD, Fractured Lit, Foglifter, etc. He/him. Website: drobnik.co

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Łukasz Drobnik@drobnik.co · 2mo ago

So writing this novel burnt me out a bit, and for months I didn’t have it in me to read or write or post. This means I’ve got a lot of catching up to do on @anniejowrites.bsky.social’s beautiful writing. Let’s start with this tiny marvel from @bendinggenres.bsky.social.

Anna Vangala Jones@anniejowrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I have a new microfiction about grief & beauty & destruction in Bending Genres. read my story “Dishes” + all of Issue 51 🍽️ 🎨 grateful to @rgvaughan.bsky.social & the @bendinggenres.bsky.social editors ♡ bendinggenres.com/dishes/

Journal: Bending Genres, Issue 51 Title of story: Dishes Author: Anna Vangala Jones Text of story: “Louisa, my coworker, keeps telling me about this studio where you decorate dishes before standing on the rooftop to fling them at the ground—she says it’s therapeutic. Better than actual therapy. You wouldn’t be the only widow there, she assures me, lots of widows. She explains it’s nice because you get the soothing, artistic activity first and then there is the destruction. The ability to shatter into oblivion the beauty you’ve just created. Before anyone else can take it from you or ruin it. It sounds strange but I’d try almost anything at this point. I insist on going alone. The ceramic pieces are premade. We spend the first visit painting them and then they get glazed and fired in the kiln. We return a week later to admire our finished products before heading up several flights of stairs to the roof and throwing them as hard as we can at the vacant lot below. There’s not a lot of socializing that happens. I paint my teacup periwinkle and white while I lie to the old woman next to me about my husband by pretending he’s at home and still alive. “Does he question why you come here?” she asks. “My kids don’t get it. It’s good for my anger but they don’t understand what I’m so angry about. Neither do I,” she admits, “but I know I am and this helps.” I don’t tell him I’m here, I say. I like being able to tell her some truth. The day the dishes are ready, we don’t speak a word to each other or anyone else. Just indulge in the violence together and alone. I don’t notice anyone else’s debris but my own. I only see tiny periwinkle and white fragments sparkling on the pavement like millions of stars in distant galaxies.”
Cowboy Jamboree@cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's @barbarabyar.bsky.social's birthday on the 27th, but she wants to give YOU the present! Share this post to be in the draw for a free copy of IN THE DESERT. Draw will be next Wednesday. If you can't wait & don't want to chance it, get yours: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/in-the-deser...

In the Desert

IN THE DESERT  a new novel from ​Barbara Byar ORDER HERE! (Bookshop, paperback) or ORDER HERE!  (Amazon, paperback and ebook available) or  ORDER HERE! (Barnes & Noble, paperback) In the desert,...

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Pat Foran@pdforan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thank you so much @alkratz.bsky.social and Silverbacked Punk Press for believing in Songs from the Blimp Ruins (in visible ink and in Sensurround®, we think). Coming soon. 💙

Al Kratz@alkratz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is such fun news to share: The Silverbacked Punk Project is coming along and ready to release the first book by someone other than me. Out soon, "Songs from the Blimp Ruins", a beautiful collection by Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social . More about the project at alkratz.com.

Jack King-Spooner@king-spooner.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Obviously going to be spamming ABIDE for the next week, sorry about that. I saw a tweet that someone didn't realise it was live and I still have about 1000 followers who I haven't convinced yet about how freakishly original and exciting this work is.

Łukasz Drobnik@drobnik.co · 10mo ago

I’m shit at marketing, and you can tell because I published a book nearly a month ago, and you probably haven’t heard about it. Anyway, NOCTURINE is a surreal novella in breathless paragraphs. You might enjoy it if you’re into dark, voicey stuff.

A copy of Nocturine held against some petunias. The cover features a magenta pixely jellyfish in the style of 8-bit games as well as the title and author’s name (Łukasz Drobnik) in a similarly pixely font against a black background.An open copy of Nocturine held against some petunias.
emily wilson is right@riverssolomon.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I have a big request. My baby cousin, 15, is in hospital, non-responsive. I'd like to see her one last time & am trying to fly across the ocean *tomorrow* to make this happen. It would cost about £2500 or £3300 dollars. If you're able to contribute, this is my paypal: paypal.me/riversandfam

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Go to paypal.me/riversandfam and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Łukasz Drobnik@drobnik.co · 11mo ago

No, Copilot, I don’t want your help with this paragraph. And no, I don’t need your assistance pasting this one word. And it would be great if Word didn’t work so slow like we’re back in 1999, thank you.