The only good thing about when it gets dark is story time. Not whatever his mother tells or reads to him, even though he likes that part too. He loves how she smells like the bathtub and the way she is so warm; her bathrobe is like a real soft towel. Sometimes he closes his eyes and pretends that she is a mini horse there beside him, his horse, the first horse to ever be housebroke. This horse stands over the commode and then flushes. His mom says “commode” but the first-grade teacher said “toilet.”

Harvey likes his story time, when he tells his own story to himself with his eyes closed and it’s a like a movie going, and the problem lately is that the other stories are interrupted, like when the TV goes out when they say that something needs to be told right now and it’s really, really bad stuff like a tornado is coming or something else scary. So last night when Harvey was in his own story time and living in that hollowed-out tree with the Runaway Bunny, waiting for their mother to come and get them, some of the others tried to get in instead. He was in there curled up and nice and warm and he knows people would tease him for being in a book that is written for babies but what they don’t know is that this tree is different. The others closed the book and didn’t know what came after, that they got a big television in this tree and they eat lots of good food and there is a mama and a daddy and they all curl up and watch things like Finding Nemo on the TV and the mama and daddy say I love you—“I love you”—and Bunny and Harvey pretend to sleep so that the mom and dad will keep staying there in the dark tree but then sometimes something shakes the tree hard and claws at the windows and the mom and dad aren’t there anymore, because Lizzie got them, and even though he was so tired and even though all that shaking made him pee, he had to get up and put on his outfit to go out there and tell Lizzie that he is Super Monkey, whose specialty is to tell everyone in the universe, “Don’t get killed,” and she has to go back and start over and not do bad things.