R.S. Sillanpaa
Bio
Why is it so hard to write about myself? That's where I get writer's block!
In short, I am a writer, dreamer, and a cancer survivor writing about a wide range of things, fiction and non-fiction, whatever happens to interest and inspire me.
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The Watcher
Your alarm goes off at 6.15. As usual, you press the snooze button, turn on your side and doze for another ten minutes. You always had to have those ten minutes. When the alarm goes off again, you switch it off, turn on the bedside light and sit up.
By R.S. Sillanpaa7 months ago in Fiction
Fortnightly Reading Round-Up #1
With no disrespect to the curators behind Vocal’s top stories, I don’t always agree with their choices. While many of the picks are great reads, each week I come across stories that, in my opinion, deserve a place in the spotlight.
By R.S. Sillanpaa7 months ago in Writers
Bliss. Honorable Mention in I Wrote This Challenge. Top Story - June 2025.
There it was, the Mediterranean Sea. Glittering far below me, the salt in the air unmistakable. Legs shaking, I stepped off my bicycle. I couldn’t breathe, and my head spun. Not from the effort it took to get to the top of the hill, but from the effort it took to get here.
By R.S. Sillanpaa7 months ago in Writers
The Greatest Gift
Something isn’t right. This place is all wrong. I know it as soon as I come to. How long I have been out cold, I cannot tell. I try to focus. To remember, but the effort sends me spinning. I struggle for air. I need a hit of oxygenated blood to stop the descent, but I can’t get it.
By R.S. Sillanpaa2 years ago in Fiction
