The guest of this Peas in a Pod series is Kalina Maleska, a Macedonian writer and professor of English literature whose short stories have been translated into several languages. She teaches Utopian and Dystopian Narratives, Postcolonial Literature and other subjects related to Anglo-American literature at the “Blaže Koneski” Faculty of Philology, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. We talk about the power of fairy tales and the messages of dystopian tales.