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One of the finest short stories in the language. — T. S. Eliot on James Joyce’s ‘The Dead‘ In 1914, James Joyce published ‘The Dead’: a story of love and loss, but also of memory and Irish identity, set during a winter gathering. More than a century later, its final image of snow falling ‘upon all the living and the dead’ has drifted far beyond Joyce’s Dublin and out into our modern, fragmented world. For its fourth consecutive anthology, Upon All the Living, Stories We Tell gathered twelve international Stockholm-based writers and tasked them with breathing new life into ‘The Dead’ through their cultural identities. Each of the twelve stories takes its own shape, texture and tone, drifting through Galicia and Brazil, Afghanistan and India, Congo and Poland, Iran and Sweden before drifting onward to unknown nations, ancient empires and cultures of the future, covering the common ground of what it means to belong.

At any given moment, we are on a journey. We may be travelling the world or sitting in a commuter train—but even without physical movement we are adrift in our minds, thoughts, and feelings. Some journeys are more obvious than others, but all are potentially life changing. As we venture through life, our perception of the world changes, and we with it. In Pathways Adrift, fifteen international writers from Stockholm depart from a common theme to take you near and far, physically and emotionally. Join them as they journey through antiquity, through fjords and empty voids, arid desertscapes or modern cityscapes, through outer space and enchanted woods.

Thirteen writers. One theme. Infinite ambition. Stories We Tell returns with its third consecutive anthology in which thirteen Stockholm-based international authors take on the many faces of ambition—its quiet hunger, its sharp edges, its moments of brilliance and of ruin. Clever, darkly funny, and a little unsettling, the anthology explores how ambition shapes us. From overworked employees and fed up farmers to stressed single moms and stalwart students, from bored geniuses and driven children to intergalactic pious priests and petulant princes, from regretful writers to the text itself: the one constant is the character’s inner drive. Just as too much ambition can be a dangerous thing, too little can ruin your life. And sometimes, even with ambition, you need a little luck on your side. That’s just the way the cookie crumbles. Ambition moves us all, but until the story unfolds, you won’t know where it leads you.

At any given moment, we are on a journey. We may be travelling the world or sitting in a commuter train—but even without physical movement we are adrift in our minds, thoughts, and feelings. Some journeys are more obvious than others, but all are potentially life changing. As we venture through life, our perception of the world changes, and we with it.In Pathways Adrift, fifteen international writers from Stockholm depart from a common theme to take you near and far, physically and emotionally. Join them as they journey through antiquity, through fjords and empty voids, arid desertscapes or modern cityscapes, through outer space and enchanted woods.