Squeak

by Vera Valentine

Being able to turn into balloon animals at will wasn’t much of a superpower, all told, but it saved us a great deal on rent.

Very much needed in this economy😔

his end unknotting with a snap on my tongue before hot, thin jets of funnel cake icing flowed out to soothe the sting.

Not the funnel cake jizz💀

With deft fingers, and several assurances nothing hurt, she’d twisted Kean’s shaft into a temporary row of small, round bubbles instead of the thick column that both she and I were so fond of.

Oh sweet Jesus😀