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Lauren Phillips-Freeman

The Good Girls

We were the good girls, seating plan buddies in science class doing everything we were supposed to, we listened well in biology, made…

Dec 10

The Good Girls

Dec 10

Sweet Child O’ Mine

I remember it still: the opening guitar riff to Sweet Child O’ Mine echoing off the lino of our council house bathroom, my inaugural…

Nov 30

Sweet Child O’ Mine

Nov 30

Not all self-care is comfortable

Not all self-care is comfortable, sometimes it’s awkward I’d rather not actuallies, it’s side-stepped questions at family parties, aborted…

Nov 19

Not all self-care is comfortable

Nov 19

The Survivor of Asteroid Strikes

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

Oct 28

The Survivor of Asteroid Strikes

Oct 28

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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