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Firewood
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27 Firewood The swung axe thwacks, shh-wunks into oak side. Maul and wedge pa-ching, pa-ching, pa-ching, the ring disappearing into woods. Or a chainsaw rips, shreds wood to bits in a caterwauling rage of fuel reek and oil drool. Still, a tree stands longer than it should, unwavered until it is, its slow topple a towering crescendo. Rendered like a whale, chopped and channeled, loaded and stacked, on the grate it pops and smacks, snarls back. It spits and hisses. ...