#Thyme Travellers

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2024 reads / storygraph

Thyme Travellers

an anthology of speculative short stories by diaspora Palestinian authors

a variety of narratives imagining Palestine in past, present, and future, with significant themes of memory, identity, and resistance

includes: an Australian woman who decides to dig to Palestine, a haunting story about a group of Gazan boys swimming at night, a family discovering their grandmothers secrets in her memories after she dies, a girl from the west bank who has to do a quest as a spirit to get back to her body, an astronaut who returns to Gaza and finds he still has a chance to go to space, time travel, aliens, and more

arc from netgalley, out sep 5

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Title: Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction Editor: Sonia Sulaiman Publication Year: 2024 Publisher: Roseway Publishing Genre: fiction, short stories, fantasy, science fiction

“Someone once said that all Palestinian fiction is speculative; we are always grappling with the past and living in expectation of the future, while our fictions tell of alternate histories—being, by definition, histories told by the colonized. Others say that the definition of the speculative is itself a colonial imposition.”

I found that these lines from Sonia Sulaiman’s preface really stayed with me while reading this anthology. It also raises a really fascinating question of what “speculative” might mean for different groups, and one that I’ll be thinking about for a long while. Thyme Travellers is a short anthology of speculative fiction written by authors from the Palestinian diaspora, all of whom are (re)imagining a world for their people and motherland in different ways. Like any anthology, some stories stood out to me more than others. Personally, the two that I think are absolute must-reads from this anthology are Nadia Afifi’s “The Generation Chip” and Samah Serour Fadil’s “Gaza Luna.” I felt that both authors beautifully captured the love and resilience of Palestinians in their own unique manner.

I do (rather selfishly) wish a lot of these stories were longer, but I think each author brought something to this anthology that will give the reader much to think about, especially as we continue to push for a world with a liberated Palestine.

Content Warning: colonization, grief, death, war, violence, references to suicide and deportation

[bookshelvesandtealeaves]

✨ BOOK REVIEW ✨

Thyme Travellers edited by Sonia Sulaiman

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Thank you Roseway Publishing and Netgalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

As with all anthologies, there were some hits and some misses. There were quite a few stories I felt needed another round or two of edits, some lines that felt clunky and some bits that felt unpolished.

There were also some incredibly moving stories in here with some really beautiful prose.

Overall, I enjoyed reading this. I felt like it gave me some insight into a culture I know very little about through an incredibly interesting lens.

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"At first, she spoke in a measured way, §Oh… have I been civil? I mean, have I given the impression I see this as a civil debate? Or that… this question—which is the question of my life—is even up for ‘debate’?'"

from "Down Under" by Jumaana Abdu in Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction ed. by Sonia Sulaiman

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[acemodri]

Happy pride month p2

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Oh, the summertime is coming And the trees are sweetly blooming And the wild mountain thyme Grows around the blooming heather

Will you go, lassie, go? And we'll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will you go, lassie, go?

--"Wild Mountain Thyme" (Scottish/Irish Folk Song)

Photo: Loch Ness, Scotland

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Herbes de Provence

Essential to Cuisine de Provence, Herbes de Provence is a fragrant mix of dried aromatic herbs, grown under the sun of Southern France. It makes one's taste-buds sing and elevate any simple vegetable or stew to a special dish, often bringing back memories of Summer holidays --of an important part of my childhood even, in my case! In other words, a little jar of happiness! Happy Tuesday!

Ingredients (makes about 1/3 cup):

1 1/2 tablespoon dried sage

1 1/2 tablespoon dried basil

1 tablespoon dried thyme

1 tablespoon dried marjoram

1/2 tablespoon dried rosemary

1/2 tablespoon dried oregano

In a small bowl, combine dried sage, dried basil, dried thyme, dried marjoram, dried rosemary and dried oregano.

Give a good stir to mix.

Spoon Herbes de Provence in a clean, dry glass jar, and close tightly with the lid. Use in recipes such as Tourte aux Blettes or Tian.

[aroaessidhe]

read in 2024: anthologies

Everything Under The Moon

Heartwood: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy

Inara: Light of Utopia

Fifty Beasts To Break Your Heart

Thyme Travellers

Faeries Never Lie

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But like any truth, some truths are eternal and some are used to incite the ignorant. Some do both.

Layla Azmi Goushey, "The Heart Knows the Truth" from Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

[thymeisasocialconstruct]

Where’s your fucking wedding ring

[hyperfix-tangented]

What would the SOD trio miss the most about the future upon being stuck in the past?

Hyper: Their parents.

Techie: Their mother + comfort objects. And routine.

Thyme: The park.

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// general plotting/upcoming arc talk in the tags

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Thyme Travel

I wrote this after reading a pun.

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Starting so many medicinal and culinary herbs for the Olean Holistic Fair 🌾😊