Sapphire ⋅

London girl currently living in a cabin in rural central Portugal with two dogs and a cat for company! Trying to embrace my fifties without feeling old.

Love me when I least deserve it, for that's when I need it most.

Swedish proverb

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February 04, 2014

Old flame in My creative writing

This is a short story I've written for a competition ... I’d just finished mopping the kitchen floor when the doorbell rang. With a sigh I put down the mop, walked into the hallway and opened th...


I know I should have felt guilty about stealing the money, but I really didn't know what else I could do. When I was first diagnosed with cancer, all those months ago, everyone was very kind t...


As a cloud of smoke flew back into her face Eve assessed the man standing in front of her. Even by her standards he was short and his puffed-out chest gave the impression that he was stocky too, ...


750 words. That could be tricky tonight. See, we've been at the ocl town festival and I am a litt ditzy tiight. Not horrndously drunk but a little unstalbe on my fet, a ittle fuzzy of the mind. S...


You watched the old man circle the car. At first he kept his distance, but after a while he started moving closer and closer until he was near enough to reach out and touch you. You leaned over a...


I held her hand as we entered the church. Her high heels clipped along the floor as we made our way to the pew nearest the pulpit. Church was not a comfortable place for me; I had long ago felt t...


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