Broadway Butterfly

by Sara DiVello

“I reckon a person oughtta be able to do as she likes without it being everybody’s news.”

Facts were facts. But the storyteller steered the narrative and the narrative steered public perception. It was an invisible power.

But no matter what he’d done, she’d yet to meet a no-good man who thought of himself as the villain. Everyone, Julia had learned, found a way to paint themselves as the heroes in their own stories.