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• Fiction > Scripts & Plays
  Red Suds

  

  By LaurenCorlett, Olney, MD

  [Setting: rural home, around 8:00 pm. GIRL is in the kitchen, washing pots after dinner. MOM and DAD sit in the living room, MOM reads a book, DAD reading news off an iPad, both have wine glasses] [Fade into medium shot 1 of GIRL through the archway between the sunroom and the kitchen. There is a g...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Run Down

  

  By LaurenCorlett, Olney, MD

  The Green walls, Are mostly tile, Like the floor. The single hand dryer, Hardly works, And isn’t enough. The broken sinks, Both old and new, Leak like crazy, And won’t get hot. And then the stalls, Of which there are 5, Each are outfitted, With their own unique problem. They are;...
• Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
  White Hot

  

  By LaurenCorlett, Olney, MD

  Flickers of orange and yellow light threw themselves across the stone flooring, landing harmlessly at the bare feet of the girl. The girl’s face was dirtied from her recently ended travels. Splotches of dried mud and a couple of spots of burnt skin disguised her freckles. Her blonde hair was tang...
• Fiction > Scripts & Plays
  Revenge Of the Blondes

  

  By LaurenCorlett, Olney, MD

  [Addison and Piper, two of the blondes, sitting on a bench Up-Center. Lights Up Enter Riley and Taylor, two brunettes, stage right] Riley (To Taylor) Hey Taylor, How do you drown a blond? Taylor Tape a mirror to the bottom of the pool! I heard that one before, it’s hilarious! Hey Riley...
• Fiction > All Fiction
  Blood Red.

  

  By LaurenCorlett, Olney, MD

  “There’s always something” I say. “There’s always something?” he repeats in his usual questioning tone. “Always something there.” I say. “Something where?” he asks. “Here.” I answer, “always something here to drag you in.” “Drag you in where?” “To the place yo...
• Nonfiction > Sports
  In the Spirit of the Game

  

  By LaurenCorlett, Olney, MD

      I've always hated football. But for some reason I love going to my high school's games. It's taken me a while, but I think I finally figured out why. It occurred to me while standing in line for food at the home coming game of my junior year of high school. I was waiting in line...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Within The Pages of my Book

  

  By LaurenCorlett, Olney, MD

  Within the pages of a book, Where so many people do look, There are tales of love and woe and glory, Gypsies, war, and famine make for a wonderful story. But these books do not fly at me from their shelf, Within the pages of my books, that’s where I find myself. Yes I am a writer, and write ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Filtered

  

  By LaurenCorlett, Olney, MD

  I don’t know who I am. Maybe in writing I can figure it out. I will write a list Of all my traits Of all the millions of sides to me. This is who can be; Who it is easy for me to pretend to be: I am crazy I am weird I am fun I am funny I enjoy making people laugh I know that much. Tha...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Sensation

  

  By LaurenCorlett, Olney, MD

  I take a breath and feel the sensation in my chest, I take a deeper breath now, And the sensation travels through my whole body Its just chills, I know, But it proves I am warm. It is freezing in my room So I breathe to feel the sensation The sensation that tells me I can be warm. I don’t ...
• Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
  Something Different

  

  By LaurenCorlett, Olney, MD

  Deep auburn, flowing hair, a satin blue dress, tall, and slim, she was different than any girl I had ever seen before. Sure, there were other beautiful, thin, red heads at my school, but none like her. She was different. Her dress looked as if it had come right out of the renaissance. The top did an...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Yellow Past

  

  By LaurenCorlett, Olney, MD

  She walked with her pitch black hair, parted to the right, covering her right eye, just as it always did, as she walked home. I was forced to follow her for about 3 blocks until we went into our separate houses everyday, and that day was no different. She still had a way about her that both attracte...