About Lauran_Strait
If you were to throw up your hands in exasperation and yell "it's the story of my life," what would you be talking about?
God only knows...
Besides SMITH, I read stories at:
zoetrope, Moondance, 6-sentences, Night Train, SmokeLong, Narrative Magazine,
In bed I like to read:
the inside of my eyelids
Right now, I'm reading:
Life of Pi, The Story of Edgar Sawtell, and Suspicious Minds
My Favorite Stories
My Stories
- My story is short and sweet.
- Enjoy today. Tomorrow the work begins.
- Don't let us down, Mr. President.
- In your hands rests my future.
- This once prosperous nation pinches pennies.
- An awed nation waits for change.
- JUST SAY NO TO MORE BAILOUTS!
- Holy ozone--that's not God pleasing
- Can't afford gas. Now I'm green.
- I am powered by the sun.
- Recycle your SUV for new sneakers
- FILL YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINTS WITH TREES
- Prepare for tomorrow. Live green today.
- Have you hugged your trees lately?
- Carpool when possible. Convenience be damned.
- Dad loved quietly, outward expression subdued
- Longstanding love lingers like leggy lilacs.
- Your betrayal...bleach to my heart
- So much for "happily ever after..."
- one Earth for ALL to share
- More brown than green. I'm selfish
- Hot sauce makes everything taste good!
- Blow dryers cook hotdogs? Who knew?
- My teenager's breakfast-- cold, congealed pizza.
- Pork ribs slowcooked in beer-- fattening.
- No, ketchup is NOT a vegetable!
- I made bread. Smell the love.
- About that fire in the kitchen...
- I like it HOT and SPICY
- I'm getting tired of faking orgasm.
- Know Peace and Quiet, NO Teenagers.
- $100K tuition. Philosophy Degree. DUMBASS KID!
- EXHAUSTED MOTHER: Free to childless home.
- You're not the boss of me.
- Why must I act my age?
- I used him for his hammer.
- He was God's gift to himself.
- He loved himself way too much.
- Sloppy Sex. Years later, sloppy teenager.
- "Because I said so. That's why!"
- Wanted: Baby Daddy. All offers entertained.
- I'm just fingers on a keyboard.
- Had orange hair once. Used peroxide.
- Mom says I'm her favorite mistake.
- Toilet plungers don't make good gifts.
- My mother tried to warn me.
- The hardest job in the world.
- Twenty-one years gone, just like that.
- You sure we can't return him?
- Mom made it look so easy!
- "Please, Daddy, don't hit me again."
- Like youth, like love, dreams fade.
- Never trust a man who's alive.
- He posted our sex tape online.
- Why must men lie and cheat?
- He grew up and forgot me.
- I look better in red anyway.
- I loved you once. Not now.
- Love may wait, but he didn't.
- Marked down, dying roses? You suck!
- "I'll love you forever," he lied.
- He was so pretty and gay.
- You said, "I do." I didn't.
- My virginity gone, along with him
- Smiles often hide love gone astray.
- "I do," you said, smile strangled.
- You said you were single. Bastard!
- I like you. Want to screw?
- Love is a four letter word
- I don't love you, never have.
- I'll leave my wife. I promise.
- I've changed. You haven't. So Long.
- I re-write my story every day.
- I waste my life re-writing it.
- I look hottest in the summer
- Lying on my rug, I lie
- swathed in spandex, hips don't lie
- I drink, therefore I am...drunk
- I sneezed and lost my teeth
- always unzipped in a zipped-up world
- Why is everyone looking at me?
- imposter trapped in the fictional dream
- arms thrown up, head tossed, egads!
- make mine a double, no ice
- an adult playing a childish game
- Years of sun-worship cooked my goose.
- Mother regretted my conception and birth
- Born to lie, paid to write
- Behold: These words document my existence.
- Bought a lottery ticket; didn't win.
- Has lost her mind; needs transplant
