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The "maidens" are tools used by pavers to push down paving stones. One day, it was decided that they would be called "hand rammers" and not "maidens", but the tools themselves did ...

When an old man’s dog died, his grandchildren buried the poor pet and set up a fine gravestone. It seemed respectful and nice of them. Until they started asking for admission fees ...

One evening, in a house, a family comes together. In the courtyard is an old gravestone, still in one piece, but whose epitaph is partially obscured. This is the subject of the fam ...

"Between the Baltic and the North seas is an old swan’s nest, which is called Denmark: swans are born here, whose names will never die." This is the story of the swans, who, in anc ...

There was once a theatre director who lived on an ocean liner and he was very happy. He was a theatre director and he carried all his actors in a small suitcase: they were puppets. ...

In a farmyard, in the middle of a forest, was a coffin, inside which lay an elderly scholar. In his hands was a book and between its pages were dried leaves and flowers full of sto ...

The phoenix is an extraordinary bird, who was born in the garden of Eden and travels all over the world and through time. Where is he and what has he seen? Here, Andersen answers t ...

The series of sketches of 'What the Moon Saw' arose from the experiences of Andersen, when as a youth he went to seek his fortune in Copenhagen. Uniquely, the story is split into 3 ...

"We fly over the shores of Denmark, to far-off foreign countries and arrive in the south, in Greece with its beautiful turquoise sea" In Greece, two boys had, for a long time, been ...

The poet Homer, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is buried near Smyrna (Izmir in Turkey). In this forgotten corner of the world, a beautiful rose bush grows and one of its rose ...

Is the good deed worth it if it remains a secret? It is indeed meaningful and significant both for the one who reaches out a helping hand and for the one who takes it. "Kept Secret ...

Here we are in Paris, where we will visit the exhibition. On the square next to our hotel, we are planting a tree that will shelter a dryad. This dryad, when its tree lived in the ...

The windmill on the top of the hill swelled with pride whenever someone looked up at him. And even though he pretended not to be, he was very proud of himself as well!Hans Christia ...

Outside, it is dark. The earth and the trees are covered with snow and a storm arrives with the clouds. But we are sitting inside next to the fire and we tell stories to pass the t ...

Now that we are in Jylland, we will go to the Börglum monastery, right at the top of the hill of sand. It is night, and on the upper floors of the monastery, the wind howls – the a ...

Det är svärdtid, skräcktid – en tid då uråldriga hemligheter avslöjas och krafter som aldrig borde ha vaknat släpps lösa. Havet stiger, våren dröjer och överallt väntar människor, ...

Storstockholm år 2053. Numera är zillober ingen ovanlig syn - tvärtom. Ahab Jonsson har egentligen inget emot zillober. Men det är just det där med att de alltid ska lägga en slemm ...

Familjen Eklund gillar att tala om sig själva som en klan. Det är en familj på över tio personer som varje sommar samlas på ett jättelikt gods, en släktgård, ute på landet. Där sta ...

Förmågan har alltid skrämt livet ur hans omgivning, men oavsett vad så vet han alltid när någon ska knacka på dörren. Och vem det är. Och varför. Det är en förmåga han burit med si ...

Året är 2080 och mänskligheten har valt att glömma den pinsamma period då de helt ovetandes använts som boskap av zilloberna. Sedan utomjordingarna försvann har livet helt enkelt f ...

Rymden blir mindre kall när Dani sprider hopp och värme under sina äventyr Jonas Bengtsson, Barrikaden.se   Det här är en samlingsutgåva med de fem första novellerna i serien om Da ...

Dito som har vuxit upp på en militärbas vill verkligen inte bli soldat. När ett rymdskepp kraschlandar på basen ser han sin chans. I stället för att följa order och ta in besättnin ...

Året är 2117. Yasmine arbetar som forskare inom ett nytt informationsteknologiskt område, men reflekterar också över klassiska frågor inom området artificiell intelligens. Trots at ...

Kun toimittaja Johanna Saure vie vanhan piirongin vaasalaiselle huonekalujen entisöijälle, hän ei aavista, mitä tuleman pitää. Entisöijä ei nimittäin pysty korjaamaan piironkia – h ...

For five years I longed for peace. When we finally defeated the aliens, the general greeted us: "Good morning, victorious", and I believed everything would return to as before the ...