as an author he wrote many short stories and tales, often parodies on detective stories or melodramas, small cozy snap-shots from the copenhagen lower middle class milieu, absurd and surrealistic tales or, especially, "monologues" put into the mouth of bums, artists, etc. special kinds of tales were the monologues put into the mouth of his own dog (the "grog, my dog-tales" 1926–1935), in which he let the dog reflect on life, death and daily life, sometimes with a light touch of sadness and pity within the humour.