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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Father | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | id: father | ||
6 | toc: "Father" | ||
7 | |||
8 | project: | ||
9 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
10 | class: paul | ||
11 | order: 37 | ||
12 | next: | ||
13 | - title: Paul | ||
14 | link: paul | ||
15 | - title: Fire | ||
16 | link: fire | ||
17 | prev: | ||
18 | - title: Toothpaste | ||
19 | link: toothpaste | ||
20 | - title: Early | ||
21 | link: early | ||
22 | ... | ||
23 | |||
24 | "Is man the natural thing that makes unnatural things" he thought to himself as he looked out the kitchen window at the shed. | ||
25 | He wondered who built the shed for the first time since he'd been going out there. | ||
26 | "Mom who built the shed out back" he asked. | ||
27 | "That was your father" she said. | ||
28 | |||
29 | His father. | ||
30 | Paul had never met him. | ||
31 | His mother had said when he was a kid that his father was caught by a [riptide][] while swimming in the ocean. | ||
32 | He hadn't noticed what was happening until the land was a thin line on the horizon. | ||
33 | He became exhausted swimming back and drowned. | ||
34 | His body was found a week later by the coroner's estimate. | ||
35 | Paul never really believed this story because his mother's face was sad in the wrong way when she told it. | ||
36 | |||
37 | She said he looked like his father but she also said all men look alike. | ||
38 | Paul realized he'd been standing at the kitchen window for a long time looking out at the shed without realizing it. | ||
39 | He went out to take an inventory of everything inside. | ||
40 | |||
41 | "Where you going" asked his mother. | ||
42 | "To the shed. | ||
43 | I'll be back in a bit" he said. | ||
44 | |||
45 | [riptide]: riptide_memory.html | ||