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+title: Father
+genre: prose
+
+project:
+    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
+    css: paul
+    order: 37
+    next:
+    - title: Paul
+      link: paul
+    - title: Fire
+      link: fire
+    previous:
+    - title: Toothpaste
+      link: toothpaste
+    - title: Early
+      link: early
+...
+
+"Is man the natural thing that makes unnatural things" he thought to himself
+as he looked out the kitchen window at the shed.  He wondered who built the
+shed for the first time since he'd been going out there.  "Mom who built the
+shed out back" he asked.  "That was your father" she said.
+
+His father.  Paul had never met him.  His mother had said when he was a kid
+that his father was caught by a riptide while swimming in the ocean.  He
+hadn't noticed what was happening until the land was a thin line on the
+horizon.  He became exhausted swimming back and drowned.  His body was found a
+week later by the coroner's estimate.  Paul never really believed this story
+because his mother's face was sad in the wrong way when she told it.
+
+She said he looked like his father but she also said all men look alike.  Paul
+realized he'd been standing at the kitchen window for a long time looking out
+at the shed without realizing it.  He went out to take an inventory of
+everything inside.
+
+"Where you going" asked his mother.  "To the shed.  I'll be back in a bit" he
+said.