Berit Ellingsen 
A Tale of Truths 

A dissident scientist, her granddaughter, and an elf who created himself from thought journey to a tiered city built in a giant vertical conch. Here, they seek an audience at the top in order to convince them that their planet orbits its star instead of the other way around. But the road to paradigm shift is never easy—and rarely straightforward—and reveals many truths of its own.

Berit Ellingsen is the author of three novels,  Now We Can See The Moon (Snuggly Books 2018),  Not Dark Yet (Two Dollar Radio 2015), and Une ville vide (Publie Monde 2014), a collection of short stories,  Beneath the Liquid Skin (Queen’s Ferry Press), and a mini-collection of dark fairytales,  Vessel and Solsvart (Snuggly Books 2017). Her work has been published in W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction International, Smoke Long Quarterly, Unstuck, Litro, Lightspeed, and other places, and it has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and the British Science Fiction Association Award. Berit is a member of the Norwegian Authors’ Union.

About the author

Bizhan Khodabandeh is a Silver Medal awardee for comics and cartooning through the Society of Illustrators. He is a visual communicator who moves freely across the professional boundaries as a designer, illustrator, artist, and activist. Khodabandeh is particularly fascinated by how art and design can be a catalyst for social change. He has received international and national awards for his work, including placing in the Adbusters’ One Flag Competition, the Good 50×70, The Green Patriot Poster Project, Poster for Tomorrow, and recognition by the American Institute for Graphic Arts. Khodabandeh has had work featured in publications such as Print, Creativity International and Adbusters, among others. Khodabandeh is the author/illustrator of The Little Black Fish (Rosarium Publishing) and the illustrator of The Little Red Fish (Rosarium) and The Day the Klan Came to Town (PM Press). He is currently the Communications Director for Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Communication Arts and Design Director of Gallery5. He freelances under the name Mended Arrow.