Sarah L

@fictionalsarah.substack.com

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Small in size. Big in hair. "Clearly deranged". Writing writey writer. Director of Writers' HQ. Culture and climate change takes at https://fictionalsarah.substack.com

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #2 The value of an individual life a credo they taught us to instill fear, and inaction, 'you only live once' a fog in our eyes, we are endless as the sea, not separate, we die a million times a day, we are born a million times, each breath life and death: get up, put on your shoes, get started, someone will finish Tribe an organism, one flesh, breathing joy as the stars breathe destiny down on us, get going, join hands, see to business, thousands of sons will see to it when you fall, you will grow a thousand times in the bellies of your sisters
A very positive covid test
Stainless steel push button salt and pepper mills that look like telescopes. So divorced. Much ugly
Willow the black and white cat sitting on a garden bench like an absolute unit. So goddam chonky and I have no idea where the weight has come from because we don't feed her any more than before
Badgie. Or is it Goodgie? Carved into our pumpkin
Dino nuggets, mozerrella sticks and chips in a bento box. The beigest of meals
Hand painted sign that says beware pumpkin traffic ahead
about writing and climate change, and writing about climate change, and stories and climate change, and creativity and climate change, and culture and climate change, and, well, you get the idea. It’s also about neurodivergence, which annoyingly doesn’t begin with a c and is ruining my general thematic vibe. C-neurodivergence? It’s complex. That’s a DSM-5 joke. I’m not even sorry.
A beer in a bar with cosy lighting
Sarah on a Zoom call with a giant yellow quizzical-looking lego head on the banister behind her. Sarah's yellow hoodie matches the colour of the head.
Huge colinder of tomatoes harvested from the plants in my front garden in October ffs
Jeanelle Monae in her pussy pants with an emoji razor and hand demonstrating where to shave and which bits to protect
The metal tack I pulled out my bike tyre that gave me a flat 6 miles from home in the dark 😭
British Museum asks public and experts to help recover stolen artefacts
His parties were extravagant and scandalous, with "much gay and bisexual activity, Italian nobility, cross-dressing, international musicians and a large surplus of recreational drugs"
Numbered October days up to 32
October bullet journal spread with days listed as Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday like the dolt I am
The skeletal remains of Duo
I have mixed feelings about traffic lights. When they are green, I like them; on red, not so much. And the longer they stay on red, the more annoyed I get. That is if I’m in a car.
Squashed green tomato that looks like green pac man in a top hat puking guts on a pavement
Croissant kitty on white bed sheets
world's best cat
Yellow box with the following text: "thrusting masturbation aircraft cup"
A photo of the drawer in my kitchen that's full of shit. It's a mess of cables, plugs, string, fairy lights, shoe laces, maybe some curtain hooks in there? A packet of balloons and a dollar bill (I've never been to North America). Underneath of all of it is four red baskets, attempting to create order but failing miserably.
Willow the black and white cat curled up like a bean on a rainbow coloured geometric rug
Cutest ever black and white kitty lying on her back by my laptop holding my hand
Beady floofy wedding dress hanging on my cupboard
Willow the black and white cat lying on her back with her floofy paws flapping in the air, trying to get me to scritch her tummy BUT IT'S A TRAP for she will bite me if I am too powerless to resist
Under the leaf of a maize plant. Some kind of insect infestation
Broken tomato plant branch sitting on top of compost with bright red tomatoes
Inside the Tiny Frog House. Signs of life but no occupier yet
Text reads "it's dangerous to go alone. Take him". Image shows tiny derpy sand frog being a derp
Picture of laying the foundations out of tiny bricks for the tiny frog house
Tiny frog house made from tiny bricks next to tiny butler sink pond in my tiny garden
What, you egg? [He stabs him.]
Raccoon with a foot long tongue drinking from a jug of water
Tomatoes covered in rain and ripening on the vine
Giant chonk of a cat crushing my chest
13 short stories about climate change
A tiny foot belonging to my tiny 8 year old with a giant swollen blue bruise just above the toe knuckles of the middle three toes
The tiny frog house on top of the brick and stone rockery next to the butler sink pond
The final frog house built with 1cm bricks and a slate roof
Tiny house made with 1cm bricks to go next to our tiny pond. Currently with no roof.
My black and white tuxedo cat lying on the paper I need to read while also staring at me from behind my laptop
A tiny house that my partner is building for our hypothetical future garden frogs built from tiny bricks 1cm wide. Currently 8 or 9 layers high depending on which angle you look at it from.
Old white ceramic butler sink filled with logs and rocks and pond weed and water to attract frogs to our tiny garden
Willow the black and white cat sitting on an oak table looking magestic
Newspaper headline reading "Prigozhin made serious mistakes, declares Putin"
A huge ball of floof sitting on my chest and a tiny sliver of my ceiling
Rubber duck wrapped in the shape of a rubber duck