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This is the fairytale you inherit. Told at kitchen tables, retold in sighs and sorrowful silences. The details are few, but the shape of the story remains. You fill in the rest with the whispering ghosts

Author’s Note: This is a first-person eyewitness account; some names and identifying details have been changed or combined to protect privacy. Events are presented as remembered; timelines are condensed for clarity. ~ We woke into three

The sudden ring of the phone in the darkest part of the night jars me. This is probably not good. “Hey, Corporal. Oops—Lieutenant, how are they hanging?” a very boozy, familiar voice from my past

Photo of Svitlana in Berlin by Morris Weiss Author’s Note: The core of this article was based on interviews with Svitlana Petrovskaya, a ninety-year-old Ukrainian woman currently living in Berlin. We had access to her collection

James Kirschke (middle) with fellow lieutenants Roger Pullis (left) and Jim Anderson (right).Chu Lai, Vietnam, 1966. When Buddy Spivey was wheeled into my room on the twelfth deck of the Sick Officers Quarters at the

Pádraic Ó Conaire (1882-1928), a pioneering Modernist author with a bilingual mind and comic wit(photo courtesy Galway City Museum, Ireland) It is a foggy day in March 1916, and British Resident Magistrate Robert Sparrow can’t

Palisades Fire in Los Angeles by CAL FIRE_Official, January 2025. Public Domain. The scale of destruction inflicted by the wildfires that ripped through Los Angeles last month is unprecedented. Sixteen hundred buildings incinerated. Nearly two

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

First stop: Medieval Jewish Prayer House—Középkori Zsidó Imaház American historians say Hungary’s political system is dangerous, but conservatives find inspiration in its Christian government. I expected dark shadows in Budapest storefronts, people yearning for freedom. Instead,

A poster left by a participant taking part in a candlelight vigil and silent protest organized as part of the #JewsAndArabsRefuseToBeEnemies | August 11, 2014 near the United Nations in New York.Photo credit: DON EMMERT/AFP

Dad in the beige easy chair, a precursor to the blue chenille chair. Los Angeles, California. 1980sPhoto courtesy of the author   The morning after my father’s first heart attack, I took the train from

Editor’s Note: Consequence has always been on the lookout for impressive drama that deals with our themes. This is one reason why we are so excited to partner with acclaimed filmmaker David Rocchio, the Founder