A Beautiful Lack of Consequence
United Kingdom

A Beautiful Lack of Consequence

by Monika Radojevic

Freedom & Resistance Contemporary Fiction Fiction Short Stories 2025

Summary

A Beautiful Lack of Consequence is a collection of thirty short stories that explore the complexities of contemporary womanhood through a blend of realism, surrealism, dark humor, and feminist commentary.

Across its stories, Monika Radojevic depicts women confronting the pressures and expectations imposed on them by society. A woman enters a bar and finds herself completely invisible; a newly married couple faces a disturbing punishment for their childlessness; and a young girl trades her vocal cords for the possibility of freedom. These strange and unsettling scenarios transform familiar experiences of exclusion, fear, and powerlessness into imaginative explorations of resistance.

Moving between the everyday and the fantastical, the collection examines how women navigate relationships, social conventions, anger, and the struggle to make their voices heard. Radojevic combines tenderness with biting humor, capturing both the vulnerability and the strength of women pushed to their limits. Her stories ask what happens when those who have been expected to remain silent finally refuse to comply.

Dark, inventive, and sharply observed, the collection explores the possibilities of reclaiming agency in a world that continually attempts to define women’s lives.

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Monika Radojevic
Monika Radojevic

Monika Radojevic is a Brazilian-Montenegrin writer and poet born and raised in London. Her multicultural background has influenced her exploration of identity, belonging, power, and inequality. Alongside her literary work, she has been involved in feminist advocacy and political communications, including working with the Women’s Equality Party. In 2019, Radojevic became the inaugural winner of the #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize, a competition established to support emerging writers whose voices are underrepresented in publishing. Her debut poetry collection, Teeth in the Back of My Neck, was published in 2021 and explores women’s experiences, identity, and social expectations. Her short-story collection, A Beautiful Lack of Consequence, followed in 2025. Radojevic’s debut novel, Strangerland (2026), follows a Brazilian woman and a Yugoslav immigrant whose lives intersect in London in 1990. Inspired by her family’s experiences, the novel explores migration, sacrifice, love, and the search for home across cultural and geographical boundaries. Her writing combines political awareness with an intimate interest in the emotional experiences that shape people’s lives.

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