This error has everything: drama, pathos, the word flashing, sheep/goats, unintentional castration

[cimorene]

I couldn't put it with four other homophone substitutions. It needed its own post.

Nightmares are old friends, flashing terror that’s been all too real in his past, in gorey, traumatic scenes that leave him feeling as wethered as an old soldier.

wether /wĕᴛʜ′ər/
noun

A castrated male sheep or goat.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

LOL

Perhaps it was actually a typo. But it's a funny one.

[cimorene]

That's a little more plausible given how common the respective words actually are... but it's always fun to imagine the scenario where someone has just been dealing with so much sheep and/or goat castration in the not-too-distant past that their brain accidentally grabbed the wrong word.

[ursamajor]

That might be a GOAT misspelling/typo/autoincorrect/whatever candidate. :D

[cimorene]

We've got a candidate here for sure. The goat content gives it a real edge!