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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 17d
MAKE ME BETTER is my forthcoming novel about the horrors of community. It is about cults, wellness, control, and the things we will do to escape grief.

Sometimes it hurts to grow -- but your community believes that you can be made pure.

It comes out in May.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The cover of MAKE ME BETTER features a feminine figure in the middle of a series of distorted concentric rings. The field is black, and the lettering, figure, and rings are all in bright hypercolor. Will Staehle is the artist who created this and I would die in battle for him
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bluebec.bsky.social
Wow, I felt this one down to my toes
November 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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hellafitzgerald.bsky.social
well, it’s an understatement to say that this put me on the floor. as beautiful and devastating as you might expect from @amalelmohtar.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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filiphdz.bsky.social
goddamn.
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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djm4.bsky.social
This is a powerful gut punch of a letter, all the more powerful because of the clear force of love that lies behind the punch. To say more would be to lessen its impact. Read it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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ysengrim.bsky.social
I’vd always loved El-Mohtar’s writing but this is really something else. Go read it.
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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ancienthydra.bsky.social
Heartbreaking, infuriating (because how many of us have struggled to articulate how they feel about the death of friendships over the utter disdain to the eradication of a people) and a ridiculously beautiful read.
November 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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bwianair.bsky.social
This sounds *amazing* and I have an excuse to spend several hours drinking wine in the kitchen? Win win.
sarahgailey.bsky.social Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 1d
💥The HOTTEST new publishing trend is:

Spending an entire afternoon in the kitchen stirring a big pot of onions

Here's a recipe to help YOU keep your finger on the pulse 😎
French Onion Soup Tarts
Digest 11.26.25 - Stone Soup
stone-soup.ghost.io
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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protopigeon.lol
Part One: Demoralize the onions 👌
sarahgailey.bsky.social Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 1d
💥The HOTTEST new publishing trend is:

Spending an entire afternoon in the kitchen stirring a big pot of onions

Here's a recipe to help YOU keep your finger on the pulse 😎
French Onion Soup Tarts
Digest 11.26.25 - Stone Soup
stone-soup.ghost.io
November 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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friede.bsky.social
I was talking to a friend-colleague last night about how little vocabulary we have for the depth of friendship, relationships unregulated, uncontrolled — built on intention & choice, of shared vision & values.

And thus how durable, how fragile: Prince Rupert’s drops.
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
sarahgailey.bsky.social
💥The HOTTEST new publishing trend is:

Spending an entire afternoon in the kitchen stirring a big pot of onions

Here's a recipe to help YOU keep your finger on the pulse 😎
French Onion Soup Tarts
Digest 11.26.25 - Stone Soup
stone-soup.ghost.io
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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byzantienne.bsky.social
I expect nothing less from the brilliant @amalelmohtar.com, but this is gorgeous and heartbreaking in every way. You all should read it.

Free Palestine.
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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froufe.bsky.social
Some of Lara and Mandy's bird photographs in
birdersofpalestine.com
Birders of Palestine
Support the birdwatchers of Gaza. Prints and postcards taken by Palestinian birders.
birdersofpalestine.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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ezzyod.bsky.social
If you read one thing today, or even this week, read this.
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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sundayseasongs.bsky.social
"Our friendship was beautiful, I think. I treasured it deeply. And I still want to share beautiful things whenever I can."
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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meleager.bsky.social
Gods, this is exquisitely heartbreaking.
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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jcalyst.bsky.social
this is so beautiful and so heartbreaking
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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masinger.bsky.social
Well that hit hard.

This topic... there are people I don't talk to any more, or walk on eggshells around, because of it.

Who I want to shake
Who I feel like I no longer understand

What happened to our shared humanity?

When is enough, enough?
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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kayorchison.bsky.social
The heartbreaking tale that could stand as synecdoche for so many such friendships lost in the past few long, long years is one part of why you should read this

The other is to just stand in awe cos my GOD this woman can WRITE

The sheer poetic density and precision is simply staggering
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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soniasulaiman.bsky.social
I’ve known this pain, over and over. Growing up, most people thought I was Jewish and Israeli bc my dad’s from Jerusalem and my last name is Arabic for Solomon. About half the time, there would be an awful moment when the love they had for me turned to loathing bc my dad is Palestinian.
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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nocturnalxlight.bsky.social
“Here is someone I loved. I am giving her to you. You may not recall.

I wish you a silence in which you can hear birds sing.”

❤️‍🩹
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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weredawgz.blacksky.app
Grieving the living is always painful, and in some situations this is more true than others, esp when the world around you burns

@amalelmohtar.com wrote an incredible reflection on it
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
sarahgailey.bsky.social
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com

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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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davekeating.substack.com
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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ceej.online
there are some people who post because it's their job, some people who post like it's their job, and some people who post in spite of their job. you really want to avoid that second one
April 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
sarahgailey.bsky.social
Dentist complimented my gum health. Every other achievement in my life pales in compare
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM