Word for Word: Handful

I’m in a writers’ group that meets on Zoom, though before the pandemic we met in person. Every week, we do a writing prompt: someone gives a page number, and our organizer picks a word from a huge dictionary. We write for five minutes. In this example, the word is: handful.

Soaked from my carriage journey, I entered the parlor. A crackling fire in the hearth drew me toward it. A velvet armchair looked enticing, but after I…