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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 fictionalsarah.substack.com

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 16/01/2026
Just got my first accusation of being AI. Apparently Man McManson wants to disinfect his laptop after reading my email. I'm not sure how I feel about this 🤖
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 10/12/2025
My partner just started talking to me like I don't know what The Butlerian Jihad is and I have never been so outraged IN MY LIFE.
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 06/10/2025
It's OK Veronique. You don't need to take the fall for me! 😂
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 30/09/2025
Who's got two thumbs and a Best of the Net nomination?
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a cat wearing sunglasses is sitting in a box and says `` it 's me '' .
ALT: a cat wearing sunglasses is sitting in a box and says `` it 's me '' .
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 28/09/2025
Love this story 😍
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 27/09/2025
OK guys this is enough now. I'm barely awake and I'm expected to pronounce Zaporizhzhia. If that's not a good enough reason for an immediate global ceasefire I don't know what is.
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 26/09/2025
Morning oof
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 23/09/2025
John Oliver just saying what the brats knew all along
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 11/09/2025
So goddamn bleak. I was out of sorts for a week after. Read Annie Bot! My entire review is "Holyyyyy fucking shit!"
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 11/09/2025
Just read I Who Have Never Known Men and Annie Bot back-to-back and I can barely breathe jfc. I think I need to lie in a dark room and have my hair stroked (but not by a man)
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 03/09/2025
No your headphones disconnected so the whole gym heard you listening to the K Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack on full blast
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 15/06/2025
My partner just said that air miles are just V Bucks for adults and I simply cannot continue under these conditions
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 21/05/2025
Correct
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 21/05/2025
Just left a creative writing workshop where the host said there was an AI prompt/exercise and we'd all have to join Open AI to do it but it was fine because it's very quick to do wtfffff people
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 21/05/2025
It's true. Absolute madness the hoops I've just had to jump through to maybe get a few quid a week.
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 21/05/2025
Finally finished youngest kid's DLA form. It's taken 200 pages and two printer cartridges. I feel like this is as good an argument for universal basic income as any.
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 09/05/2025
Looking forward to this!
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 09/05/2025
Short story and essay and book recs for exhausted brains that need nourishing but have no focus pls!
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 07/05/2025
Gender reveal but Pope
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 03/05/2025
Just me?!?
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 16/04/2025
Oh hey so if you're celebrating the supreme court decision and also horrified at what's happening in the US then have I got bad news for you
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 23/03/2025
How do I turn Meta AI off in WhatsApp?!?
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 13/03/2025
Help! The plants have pushed the lid off my terrarium. What do I do? <Panic>
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 10/03/2025
Thanks
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 10/03/2025
Semi-accidentally wheated myself last night and I am suffering today. My tummmyyy hurttsssss 😭
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 10/03/2025
that was my reaction
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 03/03/2025
Men, eh?
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 03/03/2025
That would have been funny enough if his opinion wasn't that Zelenskyy was at fault for The Trump Incident because he should have been better prepared.
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 03/03/2025
Guy in my coworking space on a Zoom meeting: “I just want to intervene. A disclaimer first, I haven’t listened to all the materials but I have an opinion."
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 28/02/2025
Gawd I farkin love rabble rousing. Still on an absolute high from last night ❤️
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 24/02/2025
Gallbladder pain with no gallbladder is extremely annoying
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 21/02/2025
Diane di Prima knew
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
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 16/02/2025
I'm just a girl squinting at my phone hoping the triptans knock me out before the migraine kick in
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 28/01/2025
Realised my eldest was old enough to read the Decorative Gourd Season blog and she's been hyperventilating ever since and honestly all the pain and struggle of parenting has been worth it for this one precious moment
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 26/01/2025
Watched Section 31 last night and lol what
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 24/01/2025
What's more painful: treading on Lego or biting your lip in the same place every time you eat for two weeks?
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 20/01/2025
When I'm in charge the first thing I'll do is ban all perfumes and colognes in public spaces. Currently on the train and despite being antihistamined to the max I want to tear my eyes out. Plus it doesn't actually smell good 🤮 🤷‍♀️
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 11/01/2025
I have The Winter Virus with the fun addition that my nose has been bleeding for like four days now.
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 01/01/2025
Men on dating apps be like
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 12/12/2024
I'm just a girl sitting at my laptop begging Google to show me literally anything but AI summaries and video clips
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 08/12/2024
Just saw the Section 31 trailer and what the fuck are they doing
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 07/12/2024
It's actually a masterpiece
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 07/12/2024
I did it. I watched Hot Frosty and it was exactly the right thing to do.
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 04/12/2024
I was wondering why men are hot when they put glasses on and women are hot when they take glasses off and realised it's because wearing glasses is considered a sign of intelligence and I simply cannot sigh any harder
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 29/11/2024
Not my email autocorrecting guten tag to gluten tag
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 29/11/2024
Ok cool
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 29/11/2024
Omg help. My kids are sick so I asked my ex to bring round a broiler chicken so I can cure them with soup. He didn't ask the butcher to butcher the chicken so now I have to chop it's head off. Context: I'm the world's most squeamish person.
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 03/01/2024
There is no legitimate use for farfalle. Fight me.
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 26/12/2023
So. Showgirls. Where's Paul Verhoeven? I've got questions.
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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 17/12/2023
Finished my bullet journal two weeks before the end of the year and this seems like an unnecessarily cruel joke
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