by G. S. Arnold | Dec 7, 2025 | Fiction
Art by Glenn Shaw A Song for the End of Everything by G. S. Arnold https://consequenceforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/A-Song-for-the-End-of-Everything-V2.m4a Five-and-a-half weeks before Toshihide Nakagawa dies, his son Yusaku takes him to see a rerun of the...
by Dana Wall, Andrea Jurjević, and Adi Dvir | Sep 15, 2025 | Fiction
Editor’s Note: While most of the stories we receive and publish are between one thousand and five thousand words, today’s online feature presents four flash stories ranging from 844 to just 266 words. Inhabiting the rich borderland between poetry and prose, these...
by Leah Halper | Jun 30, 2025 | Fiction
La miliciana de Waswalito (The Militiawoman from Waswalito) taken by photojournalist Orlando Valenzuela, 1984 A talk about the real-life context that helped inspire “Since Estánil” by Leah Halper...
by Terryl M. Asla and Gary Dobbin | Apr 21, 2025 | Fiction
Robert Lee, SGT (US Army Reserve). Recalled to active duty for current emergency plus six months. Report TDS Fort Riley, Kan. by 1300 hours, 6 July 1950 for retraining and overseas deployment. Oh-dark-thirty, 6 July 1950 Nobody else on the road but Sally and me. No...
by Matt Gallagher | Feb 2, 2025 | Fiction
Credit: Benjamin Busch “Hale? Who is Hale?” The bartender told Jacob that she hadn’t seen Hale, that besides, the description he’d given her matched hundreds of foreign men in the city. Then she said he needed to order or step out of line. He felt his face crumple a...
by Gus Biggio | Nov 28, 2024 | Fiction
Photo credit: W. Greeson, USMC افغان “Yes, kaka zoi, I’m coming!” Hamid had been awake for an hour when he heard his cousin Kadir’s whistle. He had already revived the dying embers in the mud-brick fireplace, put a kettle of water on a grate above the flames, and...
by Anna-Christina Schmidl | Sep 4, 2024 | Fiction
Sunset in Gaza City, August, 2023 | Photo by author Author’s Note: “Gaza by the Sea” was inspired by true events; the characters and plot line are fictional. The story was written in the summer of 2023, prior to the outbreak of the war in October. Since then,...
by Shannon Frost Greenstein | Jun 24, 2024 | Fiction
It was a legal lynching which smears with blood a whole nation. By killing the Rosenbergs, you have quite simply tried to halt the progress of science by human sacrifice. Magic, witch-hunts, autos-da-fé, sacrifices—we are here getting to the point: your country is...
by Kathy Bergen | May 5, 2024 | Fiction
The United Press work room at the Nuremberg Trials. Source: The National Archives and Records Administration via the Courtroom 600 project. Editor’s Note: At the end of this story is an audio recording of the author discussing how, among other things, her father...
by Vishal Markandey | Jan 1, 2024 | Fiction
At sundown, we would go for walks along the road that went from the airmen’s quarters toward Central School. It was a quiet road back then, when we lived there for a brief while in 1971. The streetlights beside the road would have just been lit, a chill in the air as...
