To me, your sentence reads as if she placed the towels and water by her side and then she laid the towels and water on her back. I think you need...
If the paragraph is the dying woman's thoughts, then she would not refer to her smile as sweet. She may think 'I don't even have the energy to...
Stories are like cakes, some are dry with holllow centres, and some are deep and spongy with a rich jam filling, and until they are done the baker...
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