mush

“It’s really nice getting input from a lot of unbiased people when my brain is feeling like mush.”

The mere sight of a yellow and black jersey turned their composure to mush.

But it would have been comforting to squeeze something tightly, like a sword hilt, instead of squishing a handful of figs into a sloppy mush.

Right before lunch I go to the boys’ room at school and mush the putty through my hair until it stands on end all over my head.

Abel wished that its feathers would turn to lead so it could fall on its head from the world’s tallest tree, that its beak would rot and become useless even for eating mush, that it should be blind as a bat and fly into a dragon’s flaming mouth, that it should sink in quicksand mixed with broken bottles, very slowly, to prolong its suffering, and much more of the same sort.