After Ten Years Of Chopping Wood Novels & Stories

He threw an axe to me and I caught it clumsily. “Where are you going?” He didn’t answer me, just went on into the forest and stopped next to a large tree and tapped it twice. “I have discovered the secret to trees like this.” He said, looking at me like I should understand. “In less than five years, this tree would be back, this tall and strong. Makes good quality wood too.” I nodded. “That sounds exciting.” He shook his head. “Of course you don’t know wood, just go on and take a seat around there.” He pointed at some tree stumps. “This would take a while.”

For a weak woman like Sophia, she could only bemoan her inadequacy when faced with such a height. “Tyr, let’s just forget about it. It’s too high. We won’t be able to climb over.” Sophia tried to beat a retreat when Tyr pointed at the trees inside the courtyard. “Do you see it?” “See what?” “Those trees. They’ve grown so tall. Several of them were planted on Arbor Day when we were still in school.” “Yes.” Sophia also looked at the trees with a fond smile. “It’s been ten years. The little saplings back then have all grown up now.”

33 The shirtless guy's point of view... I was chopping the wood outside my cabin. It is getting harder to survive in the nights. Don't know what keeps lurking out during the night hours! Last night it almost got me in my bed but thankfully I got up before it could choke my throat.

10 Years Later Snapshot FREYA’S POV Ten years. Ten chaotic, beautiful, loud, sometimes infuriating years, and somehow, I’m still laughing. Sionna, now a whirlwind of a ten-year-old, is zooming across the living room on a scooter while Viktor, our clever little fox in the making, tries to “teach” her manners. Alan is muttering something about insurance claims if she crashes into the TV again. I just laugh, because really… what is life without a little risk and noise?

"I think it's because they've seen so many endings." They stayed until the light went golden and then walked back through the warm forest, and the tenth year began in the specific way the good years had learned to begin — quietly, fully, with room for everything it was going to contain.

Nevermind. I exhaled first and then twirled around to face him. “Hehe, hi dad?” He looked at me, at my bag, and sighed. “No.” He firmly said. “But dad! It has been ten years already! Ten years since we arrived here at Cladbridge! Ten years since we last set foot on Wood—” “ENOUGH.” He roared. Ten years since I last saw him… I also want to add, but I think my dad would skin me alive. So I just looked at him with puppy eyes, hoping he would yield. But yield he not.

Now, they only bore the marks of holding a pen. I could barely even remember that I'd once been so alive as well. The past ten years had changed me after all. Just like how my skin had turned pale, the calm composure I'd learned when grappling with life and death had carved itself into my bones. At the end of the day, I was human, not a machine. I couldn't just delete ten years of memories on command. Luckily, after all my wandering, I'd finally come back to where I started. I dialed the internal line. "Knox, let's get married."

Sweat beaded on my brow, and my arms burned as I brought the ax down hard onto the round log. The pile in front of me was higher than I could see over, while the men beside me continued complaining that I was putting them to shame. I'd done this every day since my father had banished Saint. Splitting wood seemed to relieve pain, stress, and anger all in one satisfying loud bang as the ax bit into the log, sending it over the edge of the stump I used as a chopping block.

Ten years old “How’s my beautiful girl?” My dad asks me as I walk down the stairs of our packhouse on my 10th birthday. “Good morning Daddy. I’m good. I can’t wait to get my wolf today!” I’ve been the apple of my father’s eye for ten years. He is always proudly taking me around, introducing me to our pack members and other pack members through the years. I walk over and hug him as he kisses the top of my head.

It was a serene and perfect moment. The comments were filled with words of congratulations. I casually left a comment as well. [I wish you everlasting happiness.] To be honest, we didn't even have a handful of decent photos together after all these years. I had asked Theodore to come hiking with me more than once, too. But he always smiled and said he would go when work wasn't so busy. I had waited year after year, and he would simply wave it off if I asked him about it. "Hiking is so tiring, and I'm very busy with work. Can't you stop bothering me about something so trivial?"