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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: Shed | ||
| 3 | id: shed | ||
| 4 | genre: prose | ||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | project: | ||
| 7 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
| 8 | class: paul | ||
| 9 | order: 9 | ||
| 10 | next: | ||
| 11 | - title: Hands | ||
| 12 | link: hands | ||
| 13 | - title: Snow | ||
| 14 | link: snow | ||
| 15 | prev: | ||
| 16 | - title: Notes | ||
| 17 | link: notes | ||
| 18 | - title: Sapling | ||
| 19 | link: sapling | ||
| 20 | ... | ||
| 21 | |||
| 22 | "What do you do all day in that shed out back" his mother asked one night while they ate dinner in front of the TV. | ||
| 23 | "Write" he answered. | ||
| 24 | "Write what" she asked in that way that means he'd better not say I don't know. | ||
| 25 | "I don't know" he said. | ||
| 26 | |||
| 27 | "Goddammit Paul" his mother said. | ||
| 28 | "You're [wasting your life][] out in that shed. | ||
| 29 | You need to go out and get---" | ||
| 30 | "I chop down trees too" he said. | ||
| 31 | "I make furniture out of them." | ||
| 32 | His mother's face did a Hitchcock zoom as she considered this new information. | ||
| 33 | "Is it any good" she asked, eyes narrowed. | ||
| 34 | |||
| 35 | "It's getting there" he answered. | ||
| 36 | "I'm getting better every day." | ||
| 37 | "When is it going to be there" she asked. | ||
| 38 | "When are you going to sell [this furniture][] of yours?" | ||
| 39 | "It'll be a while" he answered. | ||
| 40 | |||
| 41 | "Then you'd better get a job until then" she said. | ||
| 42 | |||
| 43 | [wasting your life]: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177229 | ||
| 44 | [this furniture]: real-writer.html | ||