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Lauren Phillips-Freeman

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…

4d ago

Triple Hurdles

4d ago

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

A Message To My Teenage Magazines

You were so full of nonsense, I know that now, like all those times you told me I had to shrink myself down because my natural shape was…

Aug 18

A Message To My Teenage Magazines

Aug 18

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

Characterful Concoctions

‘What can I get you?’

Aug 10

Characterful Concoctions

Aug 10

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

Nan’s Freezer

She always filled it to the brim, palmed the overspill off on her neighbour, took up his space too, made trips up and down stairs, brought…

Jul 17

Nan’s Freezer

Jul 17

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

Twists of Towel and Fate

It wasn’t premeditated- a quick twist, a back-throw of the head, and there sat my towel turban high and proud, a blink into a mirror as…

Jul 17

Twists of Towel and Fate

Jul 17

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

So Much Smaller Then

I was so much smaller then, capable of slinking into dresses with numbers on the labels that made me glow with smug pride, the ones they’d…

Jun 23

So Much Smaller Then

Jun 23

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

Breakfast in Florida

The morning of the hot air balloons, already sweltering at 7am, eating breakfast with my feet in the pool: leftover pizza from the day…

Jun 22

Breakfast in Florida

Jun 22

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

The Peak

Naturally, you’d heard of it, a piece of common knowledge bandied about with casual frequency, absorbed via cultural osmosis and then…

Jun 17

The Peak

Jun 17

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

The Boy in the Red Shirt

Through lensless, sequin-bordered eyes he was the only thing I could see, a splash of vivid red shirt in a castle dining room, a beacon…

Jun 8

The Boy in the Red Shirt

Jun 8

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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