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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 · 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 · 29/11/2023

My partner just came home with the most divorced salt and pepper mills I've ever seen and I think this is his way of telling me he's leaving?!

Stainless steel push button salt and pepper mills that look like telescopes. So divorced. Much ugly

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 06/11/2023

Remember when my cat was ill and lost so much weight the vet wanted to emergency hospitalise her? Well...

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

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 30/10/2023

Smashing it with the pumpkins this year

Badgie. Or is it Goodgie? Carved into our pumpkin

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 21/10/2023

I just found this in my drafts and I have no idea how this joke didn't make it into the final version. What was I thinking?

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.

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 13/10/2023

Just did a whole Zoom meeting with a giant yellow lego man head in the background. What do I win?

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.

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 09/10/2023

General reaction to everything

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 07/10/2023

Totally normal to have a tomato harvest this big in the first week of October in the UK #climatecrisis #woopswefuckedtheplanet

Huge colinder of tomatoes harvested from the plants in my front garden in October ffs

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 06/10/2023

Found this in my camera roll from when I was trying to explain to someone how not to cut themselves when shaving and I'm unsure if it helped

Jeanelle Monae in her pussy pants with an emoji razor and hand demonstrating where to shave and which bits to protect

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 01/10/2023

All I want in life is for people to say this about me

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"

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 01/10/2023

Bullet journaling going well this morning

October bullet journal spread with days listed as Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday like the dolt I am

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 28/09/2023

Adrian Chiles does it again. Genuinely the best journalist in Britain right now

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.

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 26/09/2023

And good morning to you too sir

Squashed green tomato that looks like green pac man in a top hat puking guts on a pavement

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 25/09/2023

GOOD CAT NEWS! The idiot is eating, woke me up by sitting on my head, and lacerated my arm when I gave her the medication she needs. Happy days 🎉🎉🎉

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 21/09/2023

The world's best cat has to go to hospital and I am absolutely goddam beside myself

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 19/09/2023

Ordered some (genuinely totally innocent) crap from China. Came in this box. I have questions

Yellow box with the following text: "thrusting masturbation aircraft cup"

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 19/09/2023

Reskeet with a picture of the drawer in your kitchen full of shit and what you call it. In my house it's known as the Marlow. I have no idea why. PS no pre-tidying allowed.

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.

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 18/09/2023

Sick cat recovering after emptying my bank account at the vet

Willow the black and white cat curled up like a bean on a rainbow coloured geometric rug

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 16/09/2023

I tried to move but I'm being stalked for scritches

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 12/09/2023

So. Weird question but does anyone want my wedding dress? The groom and I have been happily divorced for many years now and there's no reason such an awesome dress should suffer. Here's some crappy pics of it now (note the yellowing beading!) and one of me looking young and optimistic (lol).

Beady floofy wedding dress hanging on my cupboard

Close up of the beads and floof of the wedding dress. Beads are going a bit yellow

Me, wearing the floofy beady wedding dress. Lol

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 06/09/2023

Help help is my maize fucked? How do I fix this?

Under the leaf of a maize plant. Some kind of insect infestation

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 06/09/2023

Unrelated but fun fact. A branch snapped off my tomato plant so I chucked it on the compost next to the frog house and the tomatoes have gone red!

Broken tomato plant branch sitting on top of compost with bright red tomatoes

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 06/09/2023

OK FROG HOUSE UPDATE. The house is still unoccupied but snail poop suggests there's been a party or similar. Pond weed starting to look overgrow

Inside the Tiny Frog House. Signs of life but no occupier yet

The Tiny Frog House sits upon it's rocky plinth

Butler sink pond with overgrowing pond weed

Through the front door of the Tiny Frog House. No signs of life

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 05/09/2023

My partner made it out of tiny little bricks and if I ever doubted he was the correct human for me it was not during this project

Picture of laying the foundations out of tiny bricks for the tiny frog house

Half built frog house with mortar and tiny bricks

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 05/09/2023

Turns out blackmail works. Scroll down my skyline for details. tl;dr eldest kid wanted frogs. We installed tiny pond. Partner built tiny frog house out of tiny bricks. So far only snails and no frogs. But we check every day!

Tiny frog house made from tiny bricks next to tiny butler sink pond in my tiny garden

Upskirt shot of tiny frog house made from tiny bricks next to tiny butler sink pond in my tiny garden

Tiny frog house made from tiny bricks after a rain storm. No frogs, only snails. Sad times.

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 01/09/2023

This morning’s tomatoes I couldn't grow any food last year because I was busy having something a bit like a psychotic break. It makes this year’s harvest extra sweet 😍

Tomatoes covered in rain and ripening on the vine

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 31/08/2023

Psst here's a whole bunch of short stories about climate change featuring to you lovely lot fictionalsarah.substack.com/p/13-short-s... @authorizedmusings.bsky.social @mynachang.bsky.social @kimsrogers.bsky.social @coffeeandpaneer.bsky.social @brechtdp.bsky.social

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 28/08/2023

My smollest knackered up his foot on a slide yesterday and hasn't been able to put any weight on it since. I've see the X-rays and it's absolutely not broken but also as a veteran multiple toe and foot breaker I refuse to believe it's not broken

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

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 28/08/2023

THE FROG HOUSE IS FINISHED. And in situ and had its first visitor (a snail looking for a cheeky second home)

The tiny frog house on top of the brick and stone rockery next to the butler sink pond

The tiny frog house on top of the brick and stone rockery next to the butler sink pond with a snail having a look around

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Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com · 28/08/2023

The final pond-side house. Nicer than any house I could afford?! Do the frogs need furniture?

The final frog house built with 1cm bricks and a slate roof

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