Word for Word: Foist
2 min readJan 12, 2022
I’m in a writers’ group that meets on Zoom, though before the pandemic we met in person. Every week, we do a writing prompt: someone gives a page number, and our organizer picks a word from a huge dictionary. In this example, the word is: foist.
The supervisor told me to reorganize the science section at the bookstore. I saw another employee — whom I knew was much more into science books than I — and managed to foist that…