Paper Girl

The Paper Moon Theatre was famous for making impossible things out of cardboard.

Its swords were cardboard. Its crowns were cardboard. Its castles were cardboard, painted silver and gold and blue, folded flat after every show and stacked behind the curtain like sleeping kingdoms.

The wigs were paper. The flowers were paper.

Once, for a winter fairy tale, the entire cast had worn snowflakes made from cut-up coffee filters and glitter glue.

Nobody who worked there was embarrassed by any of it.

That was the rule of the Paper Moon.