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Laura Smith

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The World is Temporarily Closed
Words from My Mind

Five Weeks

Well that escalated quickly. Five weeks ago today I was watching a musical in the West End. There were government posters on the tube telling me to wash my hands. I have OCD: I’ve got this. Some people were beginning to panic. M&S had restricted hand wipes to two packs per customer. I felt like…
Comments 0 9 April 20203 March 2021
Words from My Mind

I’m Becoming an Overnight Success

Today I ordered some gravel, compost, decking and a hosepipe. I shaved my body. I went out into the sunshine. I’m wearing a top that matches my trainers and I’m writing. I arranged to meet up with Lowri soon who, like most of my friends, I haven’t seen in far too bloody long. I read…
Comments 0 15 May 20193 March 2021
Burnt-orange autumn tree against a background of green trees
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Pumpkin Spice Latte and Prozac

I worried about the summer slowly giving way to autumn. Long, bright days make life’s challenges easier to face at the best of times — and this is not the best of times. But I’m recovering. Slowly. I’ve been back on fluoxetine (Prozac) for five weeks. I took the drug for about eight years up until…
Comments 2 26 September 20173 March 2021
A rope, twisted around a post
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Tying Myself in Knots

I’m wandering around the school yard with my friends. I’m six. Trailing behind me is a piece of rope about 12 feet long. It’s in my imagination, but not a metaphor. For most practical purposes it might as well actually be there. I haven’t knowingly imagined it into existence: it just appeared one day. We have…
Comments 0 1 September 20173 March 2021
A dark cave with a spotlight shining in from above
Words from My Mind

A Year to Change My Life

I’m in a hole. It’s at least three times my height and wide enough for me to pace anxiously around in circles. The walls are made of dry, crumbling soil. On a good day I can get a footing and a handhold, and climb towards the blue sky. On a bad day the soil crumbles…
Comments 0 29 August 20173 March 2021
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