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.
Stories (101)
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Killer Heels
You stagger across the hallway. Killer heels on your feet and vodka on your breath. You come across a lift. Somewhere in your alcohol-filled brain a memory from childhood stirs. How fun it was to press every button and piss people off. You do that now and giggle.
By R.S. Sillanpaa3 years ago in Fiction
Miracle And Wish Fulfilled
I thought I had seen it all in my hundred-and-three years. I had seen families come and go. Arguments, love, jealousy, and kindness. I had seen births and deaths, tears of happiness and sorrow, the whole life cycle. But nothing, absolutely nothing could ever have prepared me for what was to happen in the early hours of February sixth.
By R.S. Sillanpaa3 years ago in Fiction
Messages in Repeated Numbers
Have you ever repeatedly seen the same numbers? If you have, maybe it’s time you paid them more attention. The likelihood is that they are trying to tell you something. Let me start with a short personal story of how I learnt to interpret these numbers.
By R.S. Sillanpaa4 years ago in Motivation
The Weight of Surviving
April 15th 1992 Thought number one: Thank you, Lord, for another day. Thought number two: Why did you save me? At ninety-four years old, James still woke up every morning to these two thoughts. He had lived a good life, tried to be worthy of being saved, yet the question remained.
By R.S. Sillanpaa4 years ago in Fiction
