Elio DiCavas

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2024

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“Papers for People” by Elio DiCavas

Submitted to Contest #238

Miriam came from the kitchen with the handle of a hot pan in her armpit, the other straddling a newborn, and her legs victim to her two six-year-olds. Dinner was going to happen in fifteen minutes and the potatoes were almost done, but everything else would be late. While she thought of the chicken that might have been safe to eat, she balanced bobby pins stuck in her hair. The phone started to ring. Miriam urged herself through the slush of her kids and their messes, but a wave of potato grease threatened to slip out of the pan, a f...

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