This Is How You Lose the Time War

by Amal El-Mohtar

(Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.)

So I go. I travel farther and faster and harder than most, and I read, and I write, and I love cities. To be alone in a crowd, apart and belonging, to have distance between what I see and what I am.

Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.

Keep reading. Keep writing. Keep fighting. We’re all still here.