Read the passage from “Pie Diary”
I pasted a recipe clipped from a library cookbook (don’t tell!) into my pie diary and got to work.And that’s how I ended up in the kitchen with cherry pie filling burning my shins, my daytime babysitter shoveling red mound off the floor with a spatula, I was a week out out from baking the real thing, and my latest test run was in PIECES— and not neatly sliced pieces
In 1-2 sentences, explain the denotation of the word “pieces” (bold lettering) and its connotation in this passage