Content Warning: Historical trauma
Stories tagged with this warning engage with historical trauma — atrocities, persecution, or suffering drawn from real historical events. The material may be distressing.
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The Sphere
Earth is dying. Humanity builds a sphere around the sun over forty thousand years, wins a war against every species that fears it, then votes to make certain no one can ever come again. Told at the speed light actually travels. -
Reincarnation
Two souls keep finding each other across 82,000 years. In Richard Lowe's novel, a 1971 therapy regression in New Haven uncovers a connection that stretches from prehistoric East Africa to the moon, asking what it costs to recognize someone again and again across hundreds of lives. -
Grim
For eternity, Grim has assessed the dead and sent them on. Then he starts watching where they go. What he finds is not what he was told. And the work continues anyway. -
Behind the Wire
The true story of a Navy cook captured at Corregidor, 1942. Three years and four months as a Japanese POW. Written from memory by his grandson at age 65. -
The Last Candle in Constantinople
A mother and her young son take refuge in the Hagia Sophia during the final hours of Constantinople's siege in 1453. As the Byzantine Empire falls around them, Anna must protect seven-year-old Nikolas while finding hope in the most unlikely place—a starving street dog fighting to survive. A haunting tale of humanity's endurance in the face of history's darkest moments.