The Kinder Surprise

The Kinder Surprise

n.
the point in your early adolescence when you realize that your parents are muddling through their lives the same as you; that many respectable adults are no less lost than you and your friends, no less petty and obsessive and insecure, which makes you wonder if there are no real adults, because such a thing never actually existed, except in bedtime stories.

German Kinder, children. Refers to Kinder Surprise, a foil-wrapped chocolate egg that contains a small toy that’s already broken into pieces. Pronounced “thuh kin-der ser-prahyz.”

Foilsick

Mornden

Moledro

Skidding

Los Vidados

Soufrise

Zverism

Antiophobia

Lilo

Anderance

Waldosia

Immerensis

Dead Reckoning

Hanker Sore

Querinous

Fawtle

Amoransia

The Kinder Surprise

On Tenderhooks

Nullness

Mornden

Anthrodynia

Kairosclerosis

Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

Austice

a leaf imprint in the mud

Volander