Sunshine Over Helsinki
Short Story Month 2011 | (0)
No one in Helsinki saw his weather reports. They didn't need his two-minute segment, twice a day, nestled between the football scores and children's cartoon based on the Finnish epic "Kalvala"; they could just look out their windows, stand on their stoops, and know to wear a coat today. The reports were for Finnish expatriates, nostalgic for Baltic winds and icy sidewalks, or for a handful of students learning the words "lumi" for "snow" and "pilvi" for "clouds."
Sunshine Over Helsinki, published in Failbetter in 2004, is a more substantial story than After Ice Cream. It doesn't have much for plot; ...