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 was not cold not yet he walked into the forest the snow crunched under his feet and did not echo