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Carrie Baxter

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2023

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Simple Enough

The pan sizzles with an overwhelming smell of spices filling the air, flowing through the small kitchen and burning the old man’s nostrils in the process. He coughs, keeps his head turned as he tosses around the pan a bit too high in the air. A few pieces of burnt veggies fly onto the nearby cups and bowls in the dry rack with each toss, but the man hardly notices with the tears in his eyes. It doesn’t take long for the pan to slip out of his hands completely, crashing down with a metallic clank, a variety of dark reds and greens covering th...

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