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Lauren Phillips-Freeman

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

The Survivor of Asteroid Strikes

‘What are you doing back here, little lone traveller?’

Oct 28

The Survivor of Asteroid Strikes

Oct 28

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

Sometimes, I still…

Sometimes, I still sleep in a bedroom that hasn’t been mine for decades, when I wake, I draw pictures in condensation on windows long since…

Oct 27

Sometimes, I still…

Oct 27

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

The Downsides of Being the Strong One

I’m the strong one. Always have been. That is what my nearest and dearest know me as. That is the reputation I have built for myself over…

Oct 17

The Downsides of Being the Strong One

Oct 17

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

My North-Facing Garden

My unfinished garden faces north, I chose this plot, it’s true, I knew it wouldn’t be easy to tend but was set on pushing through, its…

Oct 13

My North-Facing Garden

Oct 13

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

The Razor Clam Massacre

It is fitting that they should be here this time of all times, hundreds-strong heaps of razor clams strewn along the sands, too numerous to…

Sep 28

The Razor Clam Massacre

Sep 28

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

Promenade Wonderings

What if you just kept on walking? Rounded that golden bend beyond which you’ve never ventured? Pushed back the boundaries established in…

Sep 27

Promenade Wonderings

Sep 27

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

At The Sand Trails’ End

All those bygone summer visits and I’d never seen the sand trails, thin, granular veins of gold whipped up by a westerly wind, they snake…

Sep 19

At The Sand Trails’ End

Sep 19

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

Sea Whispers

Whisper it all to me, I’ll take it, transfer it from your depths to mine, I have the room, am capable of sinking much more than carbon and…

Sep 15

Sea Whispers

Sep 15

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

Triple Hurdles

I wish I’d tackled them sooner in truth, one at a time when I was younger, but here I am, at the starting line of a three-lane track…

Sep 6

Triple Hurdles

Sep 6

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

On Tower Tops and Castle Keeps

My worries cannot climb spiral stairs, they cannot scale the corkscrew heights of castles built many centuries ago, are forced to loiter at…

Aug 19

On Tower Tops and Castle Keeps

Aug 19

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

Lauren Phillips-Freeman is a language teacher and writer with a love of words in all their forms. She uses writing to help her process her own tangled emotions.

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