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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 15d
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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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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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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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
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November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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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
sarahgailey.bsky.social
What a thrill to wake up to NPR including SPREAD ME in their Best Books of 2025!! I am in some vividly brilliant company here. Go check out the whole list!!
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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alexwinter.com
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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fondalee.bsky.social
COVER REVEAL: My next book is a standalone science fiction cyberpunk thriller starring aging corporate samurai. The Last Contract of Isako will be out on May 5, 2026 from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. Can't wait to share it with you. Thank you to @tommypocket.bsky.social for this kickass cover ⚔️
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
sarahgailey.bsky.social
wedding planning at lightspeed is so much fun because you get to see vendors do the Henry Cavill arm thing, but for like. renting a bunch of tablecloths
a man with a mustache wearing a shirt and tie is dancing
ALT: a man with a mustache wearing a shirt and tie is dancing
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November 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
sarahgailey.bsky.social
Posted this 1 minute before a dentist put a needle in my jaw and made art out of my Stress Tooth. Whattaday
sarahgailey.bsky.social Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 6d
The best DM of my life from @alixeharrow.bsky.social today. Put this on my Wikipedia. Put it in my obit. Tell the bees
A screencap of a DM from Alix Harrow that reads: "Was looking up the etymology of the word Smut and thought you should know that Spread Me is literally in the dictionary under Smut" A screencap of the dictionary reference for Smut that reads: "NOUN: "Spread Me offers far more than weird smut, however. -Neil McRobert, Culture, 16 Oct 2025"
November 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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maggietokudahall.bsky.social
I'm sorry but this is a generational flex
sarahgailey.bsky.social Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 6d
The best DM of my life from @alixeharrow.bsky.social today. Put this on my Wikipedia. Put it in my obit. Tell the bees
A screencap of a DM from Alix Harrow that reads: "Was looking up the etymology of the word Smut and thought you should know that Spread Me is literally in the dictionary under Smut" A screencap of the dictionary reference for Smut that reads: "NOUN: "Spread Me offers far more than weird smut, however. -Neil McRobert, Culture, 16 Oct 2025"
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
sarahgailey.bsky.social
The best DM of my life from @alixeharrow.bsky.social today. Put this on my Wikipedia. Put it in my obit. Tell the bees
A screencap of a DM from Alix Harrow that reads: "Was looking up the etymology of the word Smut and thought you should know that Spread Me is literally in the dictionary under Smut" A screencap of the dictionary reference for Smut that reads: "NOUN: "Spread Me offers far more than weird smut, however. -Neil McRobert, Culture, 16 Oct 2025"
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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siennatristen.bsky.social
I've got a NASTY flu and am not feeling very coherent rn, but I was MUCH more coherent and eloquent like 5 days ago when @brandoncrilly.bsky.social interviewed me about my audiobook #Kickstarter for @sarahgailey.bsky.social's Stone Soup newsletter. Have a peek? 💜

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Exclusive Interview: Sienna Tristen, The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming: An Orchestrated Audiobook
An exclusive interview with Sienna Tristen by Brandon Crilly
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November 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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justinallec807.bsky.social
Yeah, it's "The Thing but sexy" but of course @sarahgailey.bsky.social packs in some blistering frustration + loneliness, so it's horniness but also regret and yearning and horniness and despair and apocalypse and horniness...a quick n nasty lil scifi story.
Spread Me by Sarah Gailey.
November 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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blamy.bsky.social
It’s Theeee Sickos meme but instead of the guy it’s Robin Hood from the Disney classic Robin Hood & he’s saying “yes… ha ha ooh-de-lally”
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
sarahgailey.bsky.social
Tonight I learned that the voice behind the Robin Hood Fox was ONE OF US
A still from Disney's ROBIN HOOD featuring an anthropomorphic fox in a feathered cap with a bow and many arrows Brian Bedfords headshot. He is light skinned with dark eyebrows and dark hair that hangs past his collar. His collar is large. Brian Bedfords IMDB credit for Robin Hood Brian Bedfords IMDB spouse listing, which cites Tim MacDonald - July 2013-January 13 2016 (Bedfords death)
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 AM