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Sarah Thompson

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Sarah Thompson is an Irish-Norwegian writer, currently residing in a small Dutch village in Drenthe, with her husband and three cats. She has always loved reading and books and has a master’s degree in comparative literature.

In possession of a vivid imagination, writing - whether it be poetry, memoir, crime fiction or fantasy - provides an outlet and a way to share her passion and use her powers for good, instead of using them to give herself nightmares.

When she’s not banging her head against the keyboard or getting distracted by ever-important details such as the different calls of owls, or what the definition of a city is, she can often be found in the woods, wherever there’s bathing water, or curled up on the sofa with a pile of books,
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The Campfire: virtual writing retreat

Come join me around the virtual campfire on the cusp of summer, as we immerse ourselves in sensory language and experience.

Have you wanted to get back to a regular writing practice, to feel inspired and in the flow? Do you want to make your writing richer and grounded in the senses?

This 4-day online retreat will do just that.

You may know me here mostly as a poet and sometime essayist, but the exer

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Published on May 04, 2026 05:59
SHAME/less: Poems
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2026 edit: yep still love it!

This may be the only volume so far where I'm feeling my age, as in it's a little weird to be reading about teenagers obsessing over their first sexual experiences when I'm in my 40s. Not because I cannot relate to that f
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So, this was kind of hard to read. I mean it was good, it was cute, it gave me the warm fuzzies, but it was also quite realistic about dealing with anorexia and OCD. Which is a good thing - it being realistic - but hard to read. 18-year-old me could ...more
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Gah! The cuteness continues!! This is just so sweet and wholesome. I'm fangirling pretty hard over here, my 39 years notwithstanding.

2026 update: Yes still in love with these characters 5 years later!
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So I'm not a big graphic novel fan as I often find the narrative becomes too disjointed or I feel like I don't have enough information, but I absolutely adored this. Cute, YA, gay romance is totally my thing. I squealed, I oohed, I awwwed, I devoured ...more
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A cute story about Mona, a 14-year-old girl whose magical powers can only be used on dough. Normally she uses this power to help her in the bakery where she works, and to make gingerbread men dance for the amusement of customers, until one day a gi
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"I read this stunning collection in one sitting! Transformative and deeply connecting, I will be returning to this book again and again. "
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“There is no question for the deer
of whether they are meant to be here,
now,
wading through the water

They are inevitable.
Timeless.
Unrestrained.”
Sarah Thompson, Murmurations

“Whenever I think
this life, these choices, this path
is mine alone
My spiritual, karmic, generational inheritance
swells in me
telling me
there is no such thing as

Tabula Rasa”
Sarah Thompson, Murmurations

“And somewhere deep inside my childhood
is another childhood
that belongs to someone else.

I find this very difficult to accept.

That I do not own time.
Or place,
or even feeling.

That nothing is as malleable as memory.”
Sarah Thompson, Murmurations

“And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.”
Hafiz

“Tea! That's all I needed! Good cup of tea! Super-heated infusion of free-radicals and tannin, just the thing for healing the synapses.”
Russell T. Davies

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”
Anatole France

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
John Lennon

“Do you know — I hardly remembered you?"
"Hardly remembered me?"
"I mean: how shall I explain? I — it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.”
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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