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