Geoff Bouvier is the author of Living Room, winner of the 2005 APR/Honickman Prize. His work has appeared in several literary journals and reviews. In 1997 he received an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Appointed the 2009 Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer at the University of California–Berkeley, Bouvier lives in San Diego.

The Town That Believed Wolf

by Geoff Bouvier

“The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is indeed interesting for the moral
message it conveys—surely a million mothers and school teachers
can’t be entirely wrong—however, this little fable has, over the years,
become the subject of gross misinterpretations on the part of these
conscientious teachers and mothers, who evidently use it as a kind

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