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    On the Many Uses of Cedar
    On the Many Uses of Cedar
    On the Many Uses of Cedar
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    On the Many Uses of Cedar

    By Geoffrey W. Cole

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    On a mountain beside a roaring log flume, Fanny endlessly repeats the day her husband hits her. If Fanny can learn what's causing the day to repeat, she may be able to move on with her life, but that will mean facing the man the mountain has remade.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGeoffrey W. Cole
    Release dateMar 14, 2012
    ISBN9780987710741
    On the Many Uses of Cedar
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    Geoffrey W. Cole

    GEOFFREY W. COLE’s short fiction has appeared in such publications as Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Apex, Clarkesworld, The Blackness Within anthology, and is forthcoming in On Spec and Dark Recesses. Geoff is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and Speculative Fiction Canada. He teaches speculative fiction writing at Vancouver Community College. Visit Geoff at his website: www.geoffreywcole.com.

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      On the Many Uses of Cedar - Geoffrey W. Cole

      On the Many Uses of Cedar

      The Geoffrey W. Cole Chapbook Series, Volume 5

      by Geoffrey W. Cole

      Copyright 2011 Geoffrey W. Cole

      Smashwords Edition

      On the Many Uses of Cedar is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives Non Commercial Licence, which means you can share it with whomever you like provided you attribute the work to me, you don't alter it, and you don't take any cash for it. If you would like to create something based on my fiction, contact me through my website and we can chat.

      Table of Contents

      1. Introduction: Where to Find Inspiration in North Vancouver

      2. On the Many Uses of Cedar

      3. Author's Note

      4. About the Author

      5. Also by Geoffrey W. Cole

      Introduction: Where to Find Inspiration in North Vancouver

      Cheese, wine, rum: they all get better with age. So do trees. Sitka Spruce can live up to seven hundred years and during that long life they can grow to massive heights. The tallest tree in the Seymour Valley in North Vancouver is an 82m Sitka spruce, the tree swollen to such a huge size thanks to the copious rain the Pacific Ocean dumps on that gloomy mountain valley. That rain is also the reason I spent five and a half years working in the Seymour Valley.

      The Seymour Capilano Filtration Plant treats the water collected in Seymour Lake and delivers it to the thirsty citizens of Metro Vancouver. I worked on the project from its start as a muddy hole in the ground to the fully operational water filtration plant Vancouverites drink from today. As both engineering and writing are sedentary activities, I would go for runs at lunch through the incredible forest that surrounds the plant.

      Most of the Lynn and Seymour Valleys were logged one hundred and fifty years ago. Stumps four metres across, burnt-out hulks of giant trees that were never felled, and rusting, industrial logging equipment scattered throughout the second-growth forest are a testament to the massive influx of manpower that went into clearing those giants and turning them into timber for the growing city and country below.

      Often during one of my runs in the dry summer months, I'd find archaeologists from the local universities digging at

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