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Lauren Phillips-Freeman

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…

5d ago

The Razor Clam Massacre

5d ago

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…

5d ago

Promenade Wonderings

5d ago

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

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

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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