Adrianna Kamińska
I write mostly horror stories, some fantasy and something that I guess can be categorised as a weird fiction.
Currently, I focus on writing spooky short stories, but I also managed to (at last!) finish *two* drafts of novels this September, so I hope to be very busy with their editing.
My published work:
The Birthday Cake, a short story that appeared in the Winter 2024 issue of Last Girls Club. In the post-apocalyptic future, where most of the humanity lives in the underground shelters, Isobel and her best friend Ayla go for a typical school trip, that ends up with one dead body and something else, something very hungry joining them...
The Witching Hour, a story about witches, childhood trauma and going back home for a funeral. Ida lives in Paris, trying to separate herself from her family in Hungary, but when her grandmother dies, there is no way for her to refuse joining the vigil... The story appeared in feministic horror anthology Your Body, My Rage from BDA Publishing.
The Secret, or The Secret That Binds Us Together. Margo and Chiara haven't seen each other in years, but a mysterious message from Chiara makes Margo drop everything and visit her in a remote part of Italy, where children start disappearing. Exactly, how they did years ago in their own little town. It's a mix of cosmic and body horror, along with a story about how trauma binds people together, haunts them and changes them, how sometimes it's very hard to break the chain of it. The story was published in Issue 9 of Chaotic Merge magazine.
The Funeral. A short story inspired by a poem "The Wedding Shirt" from Karel Jaromir Erben's collection. Our nameless narrator attends a funeral of her fiance who had recently died. She doesn't understand the language that the guests use, she's a stranger, a foreigner haunted by her guilt and loneliness. That's when, the impossible happens to her in a land where the old folklore tales and gods still live. The Brussels Review "The Dark" collection 01/26