A logician and a computer scientist have a chat about the diet of fish that brings them to non logical conclusions.
short stories
Illustrated short stories by Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. The genre of the stories is mostly realistic fiction but mixed with fantasy, creating a blurry boundary between fiction and reality. All the stories can be read for free online in English, Spanish and Icelandic. A selection of the stories can also be found in the short story collection 999 Abroad.
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The concept
The Minister for Culture is presented with the concept of a virtual reality zoo and it is not quite what he was expecting.
The people in the square
On a warm Sunday in August, an aspiring writer heads to his favorite square in the Gràcia neighborhood of Barcelona in search of inspiration to rid him of his writer’s block.
Julia
While on a pub-crawl with his friends, Vilhelm meets Julia, a mysterious Austrian woman who keeps appearing and disappearing.
The Darkness
Young siblings walk together along a gravel road on a dark Icelandic autumn night, discussing whether there exists things that one sees better in darkness than in daylight.
The Storm
A rare Mediterranean storm takes a sleepless Icelander on a ride across the Atlantic Ocean and back in time, to his childhood home on the East Iceland fjords.