Lauren Allen, Storyteller

  • Selected Works
  • Story Blog
  • How to Hug Your Human
  • Videos
  • Poems
    • Bike Haiku
    • Haiku Book Reviews
  • About
  • Contact

Flamingo Dance (Flash Fiction)

September 28, 2023 by Lauren Allen in Fiction

Visitors expected birds to mate for life. They wanted fairy tales behind bars.

Read More
September 28, 2023 /Lauren Allen
Creepy, friendship, environmental despair, Motherhood, Animals, Zoo
Fiction

The Best Mentor

July 28, 2022 by Lauren Allen in NYC

I’m looking for photographs of my mentor to put on her memorial website. She was only 55 when she died. She died alone and in pain.

Read More
July 28, 2022 /Lauren Allen
NYC, Outward Bound, Mentor, friendship, Mourning, death
NYC

The Goys in the South

March 28, 2005 by Lauren Allen in College

Cornell University was a fancy place, and, with my baggy basketball shorts and lack of spending money, it made me feel like trash.

Read More
March 28, 2005 /Lauren Allen
Body Issues, crush, friendship, college, Shame
College

Powered by Squarespace