Sibling’s Forgiveness
Sibling’s Forgiveness
Wintriest month. Darkest month. Sunless month. December. Christmas and New Year are three weeks away. Festive sparks are all around in and around...
Choice to Choose
Choice to Choose
Inhaling deeply the freshness of Tynnered air and the fumes of her cigarettes, Cecilia pondered on how best to extract the relaxation...
Ascension of Affection
Ascension of Affection
Sofi Pedersdotter has arrived at her nonagenarian father’s fifth-floor flat in an apartment overlooking another block in Redbergsplatsen one of the densely...
Reality Hits, Really
Reality Hits, Really
On the hottest day in a summer of twenty-first century, when Sweden reached quarterfinals in football’s world cup held in Russia, Sakina...
The Cat’s Call of Cry
The Cat’s Call of Cry
Lena Rindevall is on her way to meet her friend over fika at a café in Haga the showcase of...
The Migrant Musicians
The Migrant Musicians
The Gothenburgian sky is adorned with all the greyness among the skies. To that unasked greyness, there are musicians adding music to...
My Pirate Grandfather
My Pirate Grandfather
For our weeklong holiday, tomorrow we will fly to Barcelona. Barcelona doesn’t want tourists like us to come but.
The cooked and uncooked...
Gashis at Barbershop
Gashis at Barbershop
Stop, Mrs Gashi said in Swedish, just after the fourth lap of threading on her left cheek. It was only the beginning....
Seeing: Believing, Disbelieving, Unbelieving
Seeing: Believing, Disbelieving, Unbelieving
I stand at the tram stop of Central Station, I think: Should I greet her, or not? Is it a decent...
The Death of Their Dog
The Death of Their Dog
Ellen Holmgren and Ludvig Karlsson started to argue bitterly, now and then. Now and then, they stopped not to love...