Vessel and Solsvart

Berit Ellingsen

This is a collection of five short stories.

Throughout history our fear of and desire to control death has raised empires and broken gods. What’s dominated the past is sure to follow in the future. Even in the Anthropocene, the global epoch of humankind, the planet is in the throes of a sixth period of mass extinction.

Here is a collection of dark fables and modern fairy tales, inspired by Scandinavian folk tales and the work of H.C. Andersen, about death, the dead, and our relationship to both, to celebrate the living and remind us that only one thing is certain in life.

About the Author
Berit Ellingsen is the author of two novels, Not Dark Yet (Two Dollar Radio, 2015), and Une ville vide (PublieMonde, 2013), as well as a collection of short stories, Beneath the Liquid Skin (Queen’s Ferry Press, 2012). Her work has been published in W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction International, SmokeLong Quarterly, Unstuck, Litro, and other places, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and the British Science Fiction Association Award. She travels between Norway and Svalbard in the Arctic, and is a member of the Norwegian Authors’ Union.

Paperback, 110 pages. Release date: March 6, 2017
ISBN-13: 978-1-943813-26-1
Price: US$11.00