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Mairin Smit

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2022

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Mairin Smit

Submitted to Contest #312

Ok, you two. Chat's on. Have at it! 👍 👌 I'm out. MixMatchOrg261 has left the conversation. Hey. Hey! ... How are you doing today? ... Fine. Fine? Yeah. What does that mean? ... It means nothing unexpected has happened. That's an interesting definition. Why? Unexpected things aren't necessarily bad.What about surprises? ... In my experience, surprises haven't really led to good things.👎 ... Fair enough. ... … So what did you do today? Um, well...I went for a walk around my neighbourhood. Oh. Yeah, I live in the north district.Where there's ...

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Home, Bath & Body

Mairin Smit

Submitted to Contest #306

Mariella Wilson Soy Wax Candle, Original Fragrance: Like a warm hug with a soft 80s soundtrack. All banana bread and suburban chic while driving the teen to swim practice. With subtle notes of a high school sweetheart main squeeze and summer vacations in Cabo, this neon pink Dodge Caravan has kept on rollin' since 1973. Mariella Wilson Soy Wax Candle, Quiet Desperation: For when you realize your teenage son would rather Jennifer from down the street drive him to swim practice. And your best friend Sasha announces at brunch that she's moving ...

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The Constant Change

Mairin Smit

Submitted to Contest #300

Sophia stepped out onto the grassy shoreline. It felt cool and soft under her bare feet.Strange. For sure.Not like the gritty sand on the beach she'd come from that had baked all day in the hot, Mediterranean sun. Even at night, it still held a whisper of that heat.But this, this was different.The earth felt spongy under her feet, but not soaked. Damp, but not wet. Cool, but not cold.A smile caught the corner of her mouth. She wriggled toes in the grass with pleasure....This was the first time she'd smiled in the last few hours.Giannis had b...

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Chasing Colour

Mairin Smit

Submitted to Contest #292

“It’s aspirational,” she said, about my name. “Having you made me feel like everything was vivid again. Like I could see beyond the two-toned, monochrome world we live in and glimpse just a bit of the richness I could see before.”  She meant that literally.  Ever since the virus that had swept around the world 30 years ago, everyone (and their offspring) had lost the ability to see more than black and white. Yep, an entire world of colour blind people. Or at least that’s the short-hand description.  In more detail, it’s someth...

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Missed Connections

Mairin Smit

She scans the ivory card up and down. Its edges crisp. The cardstock fresh. She rests her thumb on the little, brown filigree border that surrounds lines of scrawled script, printed in charcoal black ink. Words like ‘confit,’ ‘terrine’ and ‘fumé’ are sprinkle throughout the lines. She reads them again. Once. Twice. Three times. Until it all sinks in. She places the card back down on the shoulder-high counter and rests her elbow there. The other hand gently tucked into a small pocket of the white apron wrapped around her waist and knotted at ...

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Home

Mairin Smit

Submitted to Contest #161

Her heels click against the tile floor. She follows in his footsteps at lightning speed. Through white, cement bricked hallways and around dimly lit corners. Past other bodies all dressed in black, murmuring into closely fit headsets. She glances up at a digital clock on the wall as she speeds past. 1:29:06. 05. 04… Its electric red numbers ticking down with each click of her heels on the tile. The man she follows turns his head and murmurs a few words to her over his shoulder. A white ‘x’ marked on the floor... Lights set to catch within 3 ...

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