Betrayed Hearts and Second Chances
It started as an ordinary bedtime story and became, over the course of several months, an entire mythology that George had not planned to create and could not, at this point, escape.
"Tell me about Gerald," Georgia said one night, holding the stuffed penguin up expectantly, and George — improvising, exhausted, reaching for anything — had said, "Once upon a time, Gerald the penguin discovered he could fly, but only at night, and only when someone needed him."
Georgia had gone very still with the specific rapt attention of a child who has just been handed something precious.
Bab Populer