A lot of what Jason has told Harvey is funny in the daytime but not in the dark, like about cave fish that go blind because they don’t need eyes. “If you don’t use it, you lose it,” Jason always said and that’s why Harvey tries to use his eyes and ears every day. Jason told him about the Beast of Bladenboro and the Munchkin people and the maniac under the bed. Jason said don’t tell their mom all that stuff, because it would frighten her. But Harvey has told her. He had to, especially in the middle of the night when it was just the two of them.

Harvey thinks a lot about the Dog House Girl too and the way they found her naked and dead like that. He imagines that he is in that room with her. He tiptoes in. First, he goes and gets himself a Chihuahua hot dog dripping with chili and salsa, and there she is, waving and saying, Aren’t you the cutest! That’s my favorite too, Harvey. She says, Only you can see me. You know that, right? Thinking about this in the day is okay.

But Lizzie is never good to think about. He might try to imagine being friends with her and getting her to act good and be kind to others but as soon as he says that, she reaches for her axe and says she has to give somebody forty whacks, and that always wakes him up and he feels like he needs to go stand by his mother’s bed.

Come see me, Harvey, Dog House Girl says. You don’t need to be afraid. And what she meant was in the cemetery. Come see her in the cemetery. Come see where people leave little flowers above where she is, down there in the dirt, where it is as dark as where the cave fish are, which is why they don’t have eyes.

Super Monkey can keep the bad people from doing what is bad and mean so people like that girl can keep her eyes and keep on living there at the Dog House with her little boy. Harvey’s a little like a superhero or a Ninja Turtle, like Leonardo, but more like Michelangelo, telling jokes and making everybody laugh. He uses nunchakus—that’s like his specialty. Jason says Harvey loves the Turtles as much as Jason used to love Power Rangers. “The good ones stay forever,” Jason said. “Look at Superman. He’s like eighty.”

“Eighty?”

“Yes, or a hundred,” Jason said. “One time they said he died.”

“He can’t do that,” Harvey said. And now that’s another thing that Super Monkey is having to try to fix. Don’t get Superman killed or hurt or old.