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Amal El-Mohtar
@amalelmohtar.com
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Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7
Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

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On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.
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In that twilight of having cancelled my WaPo sub but still receiving the newsletter, just really want to appreciate a man who'll title his opinion piece "Another ludicrous canceling of a name from the past" in which he decries his opponents as "shrill", his own concerns obvs uttered basso profondo
February 15, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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Felt like I was defusing a bomb but got there!

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 15th 2026 (Evil), in less than 20 minutes
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
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February 15, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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Googling stuff after watching this I learned that The Hangover had its initial release in The Hague, which feels like exactly the opposite of what should have happened
amalelmohtar.com Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 18h
If you have the opportunity to see NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE FILM & are interested in any combination of comedy band movies, Canada, & 2008, run don’t walk, it’s absolutely wild & delightful
February 15, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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If you have the opportunity to see NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE FILM & are interested in any combination of comedy band movies, Canada, & 2008, run don’t walk, it’s absolutely wild & delightful
February 15, 2026 at 4:08 AM
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“We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend”
mikexnichols.bsky.social Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 1d
i often think about this review
Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.
February 14, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Pals who use the Go Train, truly, how do you do it, what is this baffling system of sound & fury signifying nothing
February 14, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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This is blackout poetry to me
I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.
February 14, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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#PC#928 is live at @podcastle.org! The episode features my story “Last Word,” narrated by @amalelmohtar.com. A #PodCastleOriginal!

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PodCastle 928: FLASH FICTION EXTRAVAGANZA: Things Left Unsaid - PodCastle
Peppermint Tea by Rachel Gutin   Simi huddled in their borrowed coat and tried not to shiver as they reached for the stuffed roll their housemate had set out for them. No matter how many down coats an...
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February 14, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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Happy Valentines Day from my sister’s morning love story by @amalelmohtar.com and @maxgladstone.bsky.social and on theme pancakes ❤️💙
This Is How You Lose the Time War book beside blueberry pancakes with raspberry jam.
February 14, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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Had a really good time with this one, everything just clicked along smoothly despite my brain being mist

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 14th 2026 (Hard), in less than 12 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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“Tyranny of the majority of workers” - what an absolute banger. Who could possibly have imagined it would go down poorly? Another smash hit from the team that brought you “an island of strangers”.
carolinejmolloy.bsky.social CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 1d
“The tyranny of the majority of workers” is just *wild* language for a Labour government to use, as it abandons its pledge to protect hospitality workers re tips, forcing ‘em to take cases to a (broken) tribunal system instead @unitetheunion.bsky.social cry foul www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...
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February 14, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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Hello friends how would you recommend a person spend a few hours in Hamilton on a Saturday morning
February 14, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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(The church isn’t even named after him, and his skull isn’t even the most famous thing in there. That trophy goes to the Bocca Della Verità, the old Roman drain cover propped against a wall. Legend says if you put your hand in there and don’t tell la verità - the truth - it will snap shut on you.)
Large 2,200 year old marble manhole cover depicting the face of a sea God.
February 14, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Roses are red,
They look nice on a shrine
Here is the skull,
Of St. Valentine.

(Photo taken in Rome’s Chiesa di Santa Maria in Cosmedin of the relic of the 3rd Century martyr, a cleric who ministered to persecuted Christians and could apparently restore sight to the blind.)
Photo of a skull in a golden box on an altar
February 14, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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This out next month by @amalelmohtar.com contains not one but two of the best recent reinterpretations of the Blodeuwedd story, Celticists take note
Seasons of Glass and Iron
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February 13, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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tfw you could’ve had a faster solve if the very sweet server hadn’t started making conversation!

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 13th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 11 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Enjoyed this! Funny instance of being shy of solving something because there were other paths open & I didn’t want to dither over whether or not I was correct (but dithered over other things)

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 12th 2026 (Tricky), in 05:30
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:33 AM
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This is a really great thread
nome.bsky.social Nome @nome.bsky.social · 3d
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."

That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
Lines of academy cadets, one in command red seated but at attention while in a wheelchair.
February 13, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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Kingston I am in you!
amalelmohtar.com Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 5d
Kingston I am coming to you on Thursday!

5 pm on February 12 in the Fireplace Reading Room, Stauffer Library second floor.

Hope to see you there!

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February 12, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Last day of Red Door Cafe in its current location. It’s only moving up the street (into bigger & more modern premises the staff are excited about) but it’s still bittersweet to say goodbye to a space I really loved for five years. I’ll especially miss this amazing free-handed mural by Theo Tannis
Selfie of me wearing a grey tank top, black hoodie, glasses, and a melancholy smile. Behind me is a really neat mural by Theo Tannis made of squiggles and dots that looks a bit like if sheet music spontaneously started dancing to itself.
February 12, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
February 11, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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why does it take him 3 minutes of concentrating all the weight of his body into two paws crushing my internal organs before he settles like this
Selfie in which I’m lying down on a grey couch draped with a quilted blue cover to protect it against cat hair. Lying comfortably on top of me is a black and white cat, extending a single white paw to rest just below my throat while I look at him lovingly.
February 11, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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Nominations are now open for the 2026 Hugo Awards!

Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.
Hugo Award nominations now open.
February 11, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 11th 2026 (Medium), in less than 8 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:26 PM