Today's OneWord: Swell

"My knee's badly bruised, and the lump just keeps getting bigger! Isn't that just SWELL?"

I felt my head make contact with the desk. Bernard was beaming, scooting around the office space with his slacks hiked up to reveal his punny injury. I heard our sales supervisor crow from his cubicle in the far right corner.

"You kill my inner child, Bernard!"

"Oh, suck it up, Lawrence, you think it's hilarious!"

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