Illustrated collections of short stories and flash fiction by Börkur Sigurbjörnsson.
The short story collection 999 Abroad was published in the summer of 2012 and the flash fiction collection Flash 52 came out in the run-up to Christmas 2017.
The books can be read for free online and are also available as e-books and paperbacks on Amazon (including Kindle), Apple’s iBooks store and Kobo.
Talk to strangers is a collection of illustrated short stories where each piece tells the tale of an encounter with an alien form, be it a stranger in the street, a foreign point of view or an internal dialog with the concealed part of our own subconsciousness.
Flash 52 is a collection of flash-fiction stories by Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. The stories relate a brief moment in the daily life, often revealing curious characters or intriguing situations.
A short story about a university professor is waiting for his connecting flight at Bogotá International Airport when he is drawn into a conversation with the man sitting besides him. Annoyed at first with being disturbed, the professor gradually becomes interested in the curious tale the man has to tell.
999 Abroad is a collection of short stories about an Icelander living aborad. Although the tales contain grains of truth, they are melded with fiction, making the reader curious to know the line between reality and fantasy.