It Sounds Like Something Edible

Puck was tucked in for the night on the top bunk, about ten minutes past his bedtime. That was doing well for a school night. But as always, he had a few more last-minute questions to put to me.

“Mom? What’s the Caribbean?”

“It’s a collection of islands in the Caribbean Sea, south of the United States.

“Oh. What’s the Bahamas?”

“It’s a chain of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, near Florida. Why?”

He sounded disappointed. “Oh… Because it sounds like something edible.”