Urban Volcano

Fiction by Börkur Sigurbjörnsson

Flash fiction

Bloodbath

Bloodbath - Illustration by Börkur Sigurbjörnsson.
Illustration by Börkur Sigurbjörnsson.

“How was the shower?” you asked as I came out of the bathroom and entered the living room of the holiday apartment above the workshop of the Danish painter, inland from the northern part of the Gothenburg archipelago.

“Good,” I replied. “The pressure was fine. Really powerful. But the smell was strange. A bit metallic. Like blood. Probably due to the mineral composition of the bedrock around here.”

“Powerful bloodbath,” you exclaimed. “That does not sound all too attractive.”

Börkur is an avid storyteller with a keen eye for quirky characters, funny dialogs and vivid scenario descriptions. Much of his writing falls within the genre of realistic fiction and his stories are more often than not based on real events in the author’s life. Although the tales contain grains of truth, they are melded with fiction, making the reader curious to know the line between reality and fantasy.