Ms. Misty Misprision

Typo of the day is mistura (where I intended mixture). This isn’t exactly a typo, but more like my brain slipping from English to Italian, helped by the fact that, on a QWERTY keyboard, S is right above X and A is just below and to the right of E.

But in the cold climate of an English sentence, mistura looked less like a mixy Italian word than a brandname—say an industrial-strength deodorizer.

“Even the foulest stench vanishes like mist after a spritz of Mistura™!”

A pair of spray bottles with clipart of a wet dog pasted onto them. The caption by the smaller bottle is REGULAR. The caption by the larger bottle is EXTRA-NIFFY!
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About JE

James Enge is the author of the World-Fantasy-Award-nominated novel Blood of Ambrose (Pyr, April 2009). His latest book is The Wide World's End. His short fiction has appeared in Black Gate, Tales from the Magician's Skull, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and elsewhere.
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