The Witch - Wrath-Bearing Tree

"Witch, witch," they'd shout when she ventured out of our iron-roofed house to check on her cassava, sweet potatoes, beans, and banana garden, and the two cows which were left to meander during the day, and tied with ropes to the mango trees behind our house in the evenings.

Ruth Mukwana

Featured in Issue 03 A tiny village named Elgoni lies on a mountain in Eastern Uganda. One of several villages scattered on the slopes, it consists of small clay huts roofed with dry grass. The outer walls of the huts are painted with portraits of heroes and warriors that fighting has claimed over the years.

THE SMELL - Solstice Literary Magazine

Dark clouds gathered and metamorphosed the sky from bright blue to dark gray, almost black. I feared the prison guards would herd us into the rusted trucks and ferry us back to the prison, foiling my plan to escape. We had just arrived at the farm, a two-hour drive from the prison facility in Masaka...

 

Ruth Mukwana

The Minister arrived in Truck Town in his Hummer, the color of the Ugandan military's uniform-brown, green, black-flanked by his henchmen who carried Kalashnikovs across their chests. His arrival always evoked excitement in Truck Town, the kind of excitement a cherished daughter conjured every time she visited her family.

2017 Fiction Contest Runner-up: TABOO by Ruth Mukwana | BWR

My father and I sit face to face on the hot sand. Our legs, the color of sand, which looks like maize porridge, are folded up to our chests. We're making a football. Pa blows air into the empty bag of milk.

 

The Minister

The Minister arrived in Truck Town in his Hummer, the color of the Ugandan military's uniform-brown, green, black-flanked by his henchmen who carried Kalashnikovs across their chests. His arrival always evoked excitement in Truck Town, the kind of excitement a cherished daughter conjured every time she visited her family.

Women and War Literature

Consequence Magazine is an annual journal dedicated to widening the conversation about the culture and consequences of war through the publication of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, and art. In narratives about international conflict, women writers-and writers who identify as women-are marginalized and grossly underrepresented-war literature is dominated by men and veterans.