Hush, Child

A Comic

CHILD: (happily speaking crude images of fruits)

PARENT: YES, CHILD

CHILD: (defiantly) SNOT

PARENT: (sternly) child.

PARENT: (slaps censor bar on child’s speech)

CHILD: (defeatedly tried to speak but speech is now covered in censor bar)

PARENT: (thinks, revealing parent’s thoughts are censored)

CHILD: (frantically tries to warn parent of approaching monster, but child’s speech remains censored).

PARENT: HUSH, child.

CHILD: (surprises monster, capturing it in a thought bubble)

CHILD: (slaps censor bar on the thought bubble containing the monster)

PARENT AND CHILD: (both think, both thoughts are now censored)

PARENT: (tosses child a key ring with a house key, car key and bottle opener)