Meet Fie-Trude, a fictional time traveler with a deeply human soul. Her short stories are mostly inspired by real-life experiences, sometimes reimagined in different time periods β€” creating space for wonder, recognition, and a touch of humor.

Each story is a small journey, both backward and forward, gently inviting you to pause. Not just to reflect on what was, but to consider what could still be.

Because between the lines, there’s always a message β€” for those slow enough to truly read it.

Category: Finland

  • She’d been sitting there for over two hours, staring at that Finnish lake. Frozen solid, like a fish finger in an Aldi deep-freeze. The sky? Pitch black. The mood? Cold but hopeful. Her posture? Somewhere between a crooked flamingo and a stressed-out stork, with stiff neck and clammy thermal hands. β€œCome on, Aurora Borealis,” she…

  • Fie-trude was ready for her big Arctic adventure: a dog sled expedition in the vast Finnish nothingness. She was excited, bundled up, and mentally prepared to zoom half-frozen across the snow, pulled by a pack of dogs with clearly more stamina than she’d ever possessed in her entire life. The guide β€” a gruff Finn…