100 Word Story: Chef Peter

The cookbook on the neighborhood swap site looked like the one she’d given her husband for their fifth anniversary.

A lot of people have the same cookbooks.

But with a romesco sauce stain on the cover?

It seemed improbable.

“Did you give away any cookbooks lately?”

“Lately? No. But I like to clear them out. Get rid of the clutter.”

“You gave the cookbook I gave you to a stranger and now it’s on the swap site for someone else to claim and it has an inscription that says, “I love you and your cooking forever?”

“It was a duplicate.”

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