by Sarah Sassoon | Apr 16, 2022 | Nonfiction
How We Drink Coffee When It Rains War by Sarah Sassoon https://consequenceforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/How_We_Drink_Coffee_When_it_Rains_War_Audio_-_Sarah_Sassoon.m4a We weren’t expecting it to rain, not when you can still see blue sky. It comes in one...
by Katherine Shehadeh | Mar 18, 2022 | Nonfiction
Booza by Katherine Shehadeh https://consequenceforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Booza.m4a Stretchy ice cream, now this is a first. My mother-in-law, a powerful but warm matriarch, who has somehow managed to raise eight kids (nine if you count me) to meet any...
by Olha Poliukhovych | Mar 8, 2022 | Nonfiction
Ukrainian soldier rescuing a tiny baby from the devastation caused by Russian shelling near Irpin in Kyiv oblast | Photo: Timothy Fadek, CNN Author’s Note: I’m thankful to Askold Melnyczuk whose words made me want to write in the midst of this war in Ukraine. I’m also...
by Chapeye Artem | Feb 28, 2022 | Nonfiction
I can’t write anything long because we’re still on the run, with my kids who are right here next to me. So, in brief: Ukraine was not “dragged into” war; it was attacked. Without even a pretext like Hitler’s attack on Poland. I know other...
by Madelaine Zadik | Jan 16, 2022 | Nonfiction
Ursula Zadik’s German passport, issued by the Nazis on December 9, 1936.This is the second page, which shows the Nazi insignia stamp. My parents, Ursula and Erwin, didn’t leave Nazi Germany until 1939. By then my father had been in a concentration camp and my mother...
by Jerri Bell | Jan 6, 2022 | Nonfiction
Russian demonstrators outside the US Embassy in Moscow, Russia, March 27, 1999.Photographer unknown. Author’s collection. Editor’s Note: This essay appeared in Volume 13 MARYLAND: JANUARY 6, 2021 My neighbor Paula, a calm and sensible woman married to a retired Coast...
by Natasha Lvovich | Nov 16, 2021 | Nonfiction
Yury Lvovich during the war (1941-46) “ . . . But there is another victim: my son, a Komsomol member, who fought in the war as an artillery officer and was among the first to take Berlin. His war decorations and awards, earned with courage and blood, defending the...
by Natylie Baldwin | Sep 16, 2021 | Nonfiction
Editor’s Note: When we posted this interview, we asked readers to send us any questions they might have, so we could forward them to Sharon for a response. We’ve included several of those questions and her subsequent responses after Natylie’s interview. ✢ After four...
by George M. Johnson | Mar 22, 2021 | Nonfiction
On a misty September day in 1914, King George the Fifth, dressed in shooting gear, stands in a field at Windsor Home Park. He aims his hammer gun at a target several hundred feet away, and fires. Beside him, a dapper man in his thirties named Dick Sheppard covers his...
by Bruce McCandless III | Mar 18, 2021 | Nonfiction
“Alexander and Bucephalus” by Victor Adam Lemercier You’re a foot soldier in the invincible Macedonian army. You are led by a man named Alexander who may be a god. But lumbering toward you on this day in 331 B.C. is an animal that outweighs you by 6,000 pounds....
