Lauren Hayhurst

Writer's Biography

After graduating with an English Literature degree, Lauren travelled for a year around the world with her boyfriend. Out of all the places they visited, Thailand and Indonesia made the most powerful impression on them, and their next big trip would be back to the areas they missed: Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. It has been over a year since they returned home, and everyday she can't helping sighing - longing to be on the road again, feet squelching in forever sandy sandles. She is currently back in the UK studying for a Masters degree in Creative and Critical writing and spends all her free time writing short stories and travel articles, and daydreaming about whisking her boyfriend away, rucksacks on their backs. If she could end up being a meandering science fiction-travel writer, her life would be complete.

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Kanchanaburi, Thailand: Elephants and Friends - Story by Lauren Hayhurst
- 9th Online Issue

I had not expected getting on an elephant to be so difficult. My two friends had mounted and were riding off professionally into the distance.  “Perhaps you should just walk and help bathe her in the river.”  I looked at Phot and sighed with determination. I then turned to Boonmi, slung my left leg over her back and heaved. She rose to standing and ruffled her shoulders, arranging me in the crook of her neck. I tucked my knees behind her ears and leaned my hands on her broad head; Boonmi flapped her ears in agreement. As the thin, rough skin of her lobes stroked against my bare calves, a wave of respect and understanding washed over me. I had fallen in love.

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