The Wrong Mr Calloway
I called back, and watched her disappear, smiling the whole way to the car.
That afternoon I picked her up, and she came sprinting outside holding a sheet of paper. I caught her in my arms and asked how her day had been. She’d painted a turtle, she announced, and proudly presented what was, to be generous, a green blob with four tiny legs. “That’s the best turtle I’ve ever seen,” I told her. She narrowed her eyes, accused me of pretending, and informed me that Mommy would definitely know it was a turtle. I was sure she would.