Today’s random word is squeak.

This Drabble was published in Fiction Shorts.

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And will include the phrase “as soon as the words…”

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“Oink.”

“Let me…”

“Squeak.”

“All I said was that I could pee standing up in the old days.”

“You mean the good old days. When men were, men and women were…”

“I didn’t say that. As soon as the words were out of my mouth, I felt accused of being a pig.”

“You are doing better, John. Instead of saying, ‘You accused me, you owned the feeling.’

“Mary, sometimes I feel the world is moving too fast.”

“For me, it’s like James Baldwin said, ‘America is changing all the time but never changes at all.’

Waiter, the check, please.”

“Oink.”

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