“Monsters have green eyes,” she said, working feverishly with a crayon. “You can tell he’s a boy monster,” she said.

“Really?” I said. “What about girl monsters?”

“Girls are too good to be monsters.”

Suddenly I had no idea if I had been a good father or a terrible one.

Jim Woessner is a visual artist and writer from California. He has an MFA from Bennington. Publishing credits include Unbroken Journal, The Sea Letter, Adelaide Magazine, Potato Soup Journal, Ariel Chart, Peeking Cat, Critical Read, and others.