Wies Blaize

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“A Laughing Goddess Rhamnusia” by Wies Blaize

Submitted to Contest #270

She stood in the kitchen and dried her hands. It was a mechanical gesture before cooking dinner for her and her husband. She did so every evening for 40 years, as long as they had been married. They were not especially beautiful hands, short and fleshy, and firm. Strong hands, she thought while playing with the dry cloth. She then turned towards the kitchen unit and continued her activities while looking with one eye into the unfolded cookbook. “First, the soaked and skinned sweetbreads will be baked slowly in butter to firm them and to let...

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Wies Blaize is the pseudonym of Petra van Geenen (1961) from the Netherlands. An absolute beginner, reader, reviewer, ESL writer, poet, blogger, novelist, and published author, she has a psychology degree and is a dog lover, would-be journalist, experience expert, and cancer survivor.