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+title: Planks
+genre: prose
+
+id: planks
+toc: "Planks"
+
+project:
+    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
+    class: paul
+    order: 13
+    next:
+    - title: Hardware
+      link: hardware
+    - title: Punch
+      link: punch
+    prev:
+    - title: Leg
+      link: leg
+    - title: Phone
+      link: phone
+...
+
+> [EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING][]
+> [STAYS THE SAME][]
+
+This sat alone on a blank notecard in Paul's typewriter.
+He stared at it, sipping at his too-hot coffee.
+This made sense to him.
+
+He looked at the spot on the wall where he wanted a window to be, at the rough planks above his desk as they were lit by the bare hanging lightbulb.
+He sipped his coffee again.
+It was still too hot.
+His Woodworking Shack was becoming full of wood that was not furniture.
+He feared it would never become so.
+
+He threw open the door to the snow and the ground below it.
+He reached for his axe on the wall.
+He reconsidered.
+He took a few tentative steps onto the [blankness][] on his own.
+He wasn't cold, not yet.
+He walked into the forest.
+The snow crunched under his feet and [did not echo][].
+
+[EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING]: swear.html
+[STAYS THE SAME]: howtoread.html
+[blankness]: in-bed.html
+[did not echo]: last-passenger.html