Lyrical fairy-tale and speculative shorts centering women, queer longing, magic, and outsider identity across award-winning stories.
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Lyrical fairy-tale and speculative shorts centering women, queer longing, magic, and outsider identity across award-winning stories.
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Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar. With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany from other worlds, these stories are told in letters, diary entries, reference materials, folktales, and lyrical prose. Full of Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Hugo Award-winn...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Sapphic love, longing, and intimacy across multiple stories; sensual but not graphic
Violence & gore
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Fairy-tale peril, curses, and dark imagery; some injury without graphic gore
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Many stories center women who love, long for, or grieve other women
Religious content
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Mythological and spiritual motifs in some tales; not faith-focused
Magic & witchcraft
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Fairy-tale curses, witches, and magical realism central throughout
Occult / demonology
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Fantasy magic only; no real-world occult practice depicted
Political content
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Feminist fairy-tale themes; displacement and outsider identity
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Patriarchal curses and forced trials; women enduring fairy-tale cruelty
Other
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