{"id":252406,"date":"2026-07-13T02:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/a-beautiful-lack-of-consequence-monika-radojevic\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T02:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:03:20","slug":"a-beautiful-lack-of-consequence-monika-radojevic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/a-beautiful-lack-of-consequence-monika-radojevic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beautiful Lack Of Consequence – Monika Radojevic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have you ever been trapped in a life where your freedom and security come with a caveat? To know that a single misstep \u2013 an act that hurt no one \u2013 could plunge you into danger with no path of return? For somebody to decree that an insignificant act, a small moment of defiance, would ruin not just you, but every woman who comes after you?<\/p>\n

Only one word describes that behaviour: controlling. I cannot help but point out that Adam bore no such responsibility. It\u2019s a violence I don\u2019t appreciate. What happened was: I grew tired of being subservient. No beast influenced me \u2013 I am not nearly as weak as your stories suggest. I knew what I was doing, and I did it of my own volition. And then I was punished for daring to be disobedient. Eve.<\/p>\n

It was never about the apple. 1kitap1.com\/en She Who Swallowed a Universe Few things are as unnerving as a Bone Woman staring you down, assessing whether or not you will die. I\u2019ve experienced it only once, when I accompanied Pa to the compound as a child. We arrived at a foolish time \u2013 the sun was in the middle of the sky, and then we had to join a long line for several hours on our feet.<\/p>\n

Pa gave me two copper coins for the dessert vendors making their way up and down the line, and I was thrilled when it turned out I had enough to buy us two skeins of spiced goat milk, still cool from being buried in the sand overnight. That day I had badly wanted to wear Tema\u2019s green skirt to make the journey. At first, we struck a secret deal \u2013 half my cuts of meat at night- meal for a whole week in exchange for it.<\/p>\n

Tema drove a hard bargain, just like Ma. But when she saw me put it on \u2013 saw the way it quietened me \u2013 she changed her mind and told me I could have it whenever I wanted. No payment needed. Something was different after that day. We never spoke about it, but whenever Tema hugged me, she did it much harder than she used to. \u2018I\u2019m trying to push all my good thoughts into your chest,\u2019 was all she\u2019d say.<\/p>\n

I knew time was running out for me and that wrap skirt. I was growing taller by the day and soon it would not reach my ankles and that would be that. In any case, Ma did not let me wear the skirt.<\/p>\n

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MONIKA RADOJEVIC is a Brazilian-Montenegrin writer and poet who was born and raised in London. She spent years working in the feminist political sector, and her writing is a continuous exploration of power dynamics, inequality and freedom. Monika is the inaugural winner of the #Merky Books New Writers\u2019 Prize, and writes to make sense of life.<\/p>\n

Her first poetry collection, Teeth in the Back of My Neck, was published in 2021. A Beautiful Lack of Consequence is her debut collection of short stories. 1kitap1.com\/en ALSO BY MONIKA RADOJEVIC Teeth in the Back of My Neck (poems) 1kitap1.com\/en Praise for A Beautiful Lack of Consequence \u2018Visceral, wild, and so beautifully necessary.\u2019 Salma El-Wardany, author of These Impossible Things \u2018Radojevic\u2019s stories and fragments are so sharp-edged they could draw blood. Fierce, funny and angry.\u2019 Catherine Mayer, author of Time\/Life \u2018Tender, humorous and moving.\u2019<\/p>\n

Cosmopolitan \u2018Fuelled by rage, these fiery, staunchly women-centred stories are frighteningly real, but given a surreal slant that makes them all the more memorable.\u2019 Daily Mail \u2018Radojevic\u2019s writing is lyrical and imaginative, and is often written in the second person, pulling the reader into the stories, which \u2013 in some of the heavier-themed pieces \u2013 makes for breathless reading . .<\/p>\n

. Read it and be angry.\u2019 Mslexia 1kitap1.com\/en Monika Radojevic A BEAUTIFUL LACK OF CONSEQUENCE 1kitap1.com\/en Contents Salt Badgers Real Mothers Brave Young Thing A Beautiful Lack of Consequence Snow White Fresh Meat Reflections Lilith Blood-ridden, with Little Use for Vocal Cords Woman on the Internet Palate Cleanser I The Pain Scale The Hag How to Be Good and Love Yourself So Very Much A Woman Walks into a Bar Eve She Who Swallowed a Universe Bastet Deep Heat Palate Cleanser II Texas Has a Limit on How Many Dildos You Can Own Man in a Can!<\/p>\n

Medusa Hospitality Weaponised Incompetence A Bomb Going Off That No One Can See Palate Cleanser III Menace Liquorice Pandora Fuck Your Lexicon Harmless, But Profoundly Irritating Council of Dead Women 1kitap1.com\/en For the girls. Always the girls. 1kitap1.com\/en \u2018For all women must destroy in order to create.\u2019 Myra Jehlen, Readings at the Edge of Literature 1kitap1.com\/en Salt Badgers Anya was woken by the sound of dishes clattering to the floor, immediately followed by wailing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.<\/em><\/p>\n

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