Stories We Tell anthologies
Stories We Tell publishes short story anthologies. Based in Stockholm, it was started by the initiative of a group of international writers finding themselves with an endless amount of stories to tell but no place to do so. Each anthology is structured around an overarching theme and motif that reoccurs through the vastly different stories.
The Stories We Tell anthologies are published by Untruth Publishing.
Inquiries: storieswetellanthology@gmail.com
I. Table of Contents
II. Releases
A. Where It Leads You
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.
2025-10-10
ISBN: 978-91-988707-3-2
250 pages
Contents
- A Balancing of Accounts
- Everything’s K
- The Gold Coin Job
- Mirror
- Ambition From Beyond the Grave
- The Tale of the Pig and the Snake
- Contest
- ‘Friedrich Absconditus’
- The Birds Are Singing in the Night
- The Lockdown of Castle Ernesius
- Mabel
- Falling
- Cookie Monster
B. Pathways Adrift
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. We invite you to join them as they journey through antiquity, through fjords and empty voids, arid desertscapes or modern cityscapes, through outer space and enchanted woods.
2024-09-18
ISBN: 978-91-988707-1-8
254 pages
Contents
- E
- The Homecoming
- The Tracks
- Bonebreaker
- Blinded
- Hemköp
- If the Comet Would Speak
- The Last of the Mariana Voyager
- The Box
- Caught the Train and Gone
- In the Desert’s Clutch
- The Door
- Perhaps Tomorrow Showers Dissipate
- Nothing
- The Enchanted Wood
C. Aurora's Thread
Where does one draw the line between truth and lie? Is it ever okay to lie? Follow our writers as they unspool the threads of different types of lies. From white lies that protect to webs of manipulation that entrap, Aurora's Thread invites you to explore the tenuous reasons why we lie and to delve into the sometimes drastic, sometimes humorous, consequences thereof.
2023-09-20
ISBN: 978-91-988707-0-1
218 pages
Contents
- Age Old
- At Last
- The Death of Mr Binky
- Lavender Love
- The Curse of Journalism
- Truth or Dare
- Grace Loved an Image
- The Award
III. Events
A. BOOK RELEASE - Upon All The Living
Stockholm-based authors return with a new anthology, Upon All The Living.
There will be readings by the authors, an opportunity to buy signed copies of our book, a glass of something bubbly, and a bite of something sweet.
FRI, October 9, 2026
18:00 - 21:00 (open house)
Location to be announced—check back closer to the date.