Moldy

Moldy was a small rubber dinosaur toy that was shaped like a bowling pin. He had an orange and green head, a bulbous white belly, and colored spikes down his back. There was a hole at the base of Moldy so one could use him as a finger puppet. Somehow water got its way into Moldy and made his insides slightly moldy, thus giving him his name. Moldy was an object of innocent flirtation between myself and a childhood friend. We’d throw him at each other screaming “Moldy!” and feign disgust when it landed on us. We’d hide him between sofa cushions and place him on chairs, with hopes of eliciting a response from each other. One day we murdered Moldy by cutting off his moldy part, which included everything below his neck.