All Out of F-stars

Some words are worse than others

Bill Adler
3 min readJan 14, 2022
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash

“I don’t want to be ten,” Deidre screamed. She stomped her foot so hard the wood floor in the living room almost cracked. A vertical fracture appeared on the nearest wall. “Do you hear me?! I don’t want to be f-staring ten years old.”

“You get a phone when you’re ten,” Deidre’s father, Luke, said. Never mind that you have to get a phone and if you

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Bill Adler

An American writer in Japan, editor of The Binge-Watching Cure books, author of the bestselling book, Outwitting Squirrels. Occasional pilot, 24/7 cat owner.