Fairy Tale Sex by Alex Algren

Author:Alex Algren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cleis Press
Published: 2012-09-21T04:00:00+00:00

REAL BOY

Evan Mora

In a small apartment above a storefront in lower Manhattan, not very far from where Mulberry meets Canal, lived an aging toymaker named Geppetto and his daughter Giuseppina.

Geppetto had come to America from his village near Naples some eighteen years earlier, intent on a new beginning in the New World following the death of his beloved wife.

“A fool’s journey!” His friend Mastro Cherry had said. “You are already an old man, and New York is no place for the old.”

But Geppetto had gone anyway, driven away by the grief that had lived in every room in his house and in every shop in the village, filled as they were with memories of his wife.

He’d set up his toy shop and apartment both, and business, while not great, kept him busy. But loneliness was a heavy mantle upon his shoulders, and Geppetto had wished for something to alleviate it.

“If only we’d had a child.” He’d said, alone at his near-empty table. “Someone to teach and to love, and whose laughter would fill me with joy.”

Imagine his surprise and delight then, when one morning not long thereafter he had discovered a bassinet in the toy shop doorway, and inside, a cherubic baby girl.

“Toymaker,” read the note tucked in alongside the baby, “I have no warm bed or food for this child; with me she will know only hardship. Many times I’ve passed by your window and admired your beautiful toys. Please give her the same care and attention you’ve given to them, and love her as if she were your own.”

Geppetto had thought about contacting the authorities, but he’d known that they would take her away from him. So he’d scooped up the bassinet and taken her inside, and no one was ever the wiser.

“I will call you Giuseppina, after my wife.” He’d said, holding her in his arms. Her tiny hand had reached up to grab hold of his snowy white moustache, and he’d chuckled, enchanted already.

“Heh, Pina? What do you think?” He’d whispered to the infant, who’d cooed up at him in response. Taking that for assent, he’d lain her carefully back in her bassinet, and gone to work on fashioning her a cradle.

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