There is a railway that runs along the Oslofjord, north of Holmestrand; for a time it feels as though you are flying just above the water. The majority of these short stories were written on this train journey, inspired by the fjord and the lives of the people living beside it - their relationships and the separations between them In the same way that a painter makes a sketch to capture a moment - the essence of an idea, a raw outline - these stories are similarly pure fragments of viewed life presented in their most delicate and honest form. The natural flow between these tales is like a long-playing record - a collection of individual experiences tied together with harmonious atmospherics and human emotion.