Berit Ellingsen is a Norwegian literary and speculative fiction author and a science journalist, whose fiction and poems have appeared in various online literary journals and print anthologies, most recently and forthcoming in The Medulla Review, Sein und Werden and Metazen. For full list of publications, see http://emptycitynovel.com/short-fiction Berit admits to pining for the fjords when abroad. The Empty City is inspired by the philosophy of nonduality, which shares core with philosophies such as zen and taoism. Berit blogs at http://ninja-wizard.blogspot.com/ and tweets at http://twitter.com/BeritEllingsen