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    The Axe
    The Axe
    The Axe
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    The Axe

    By Alen Kapidžić

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    Winter is not coming - winter is here!

    In the near future, climate changes have led to short-term extreme weather conditions. Cities that have never been covered in snow now resemble Nordic countries. The situation is slowly getting out of control as the system collapses. Trees are disappearing, food is running out. Citizens are becoming desperate, axes invaluable.

    A short story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlen Kapidžić
    Release dateJan 28, 2013
    ISBN9781301480289
    The Axe
    Author

    Alen Kapidžić

    Meditator. Writer. Samizdat. E-pub pioneer. Aficionado of politically incorrect humor.

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      The Axe - Alen Kapidžić

      The Axe

      a short story by Alen Kapidzic

      translated by

      Petra Pintaric

      cover design by

      Sanja Kapidzic

      published by alen kapidzic at smashwords

      copyright alen kapidzic 2013.

      The Axe

      Trees began to disappear at the end of November.

      In parks.

      The metal skeletons of park benches remained the rusted witnesses of the attack of tree-thirsty two-legged vultures. And the roots. Tiny. In craters. As if the parks had been under cannonade by a strange weapon that attacked only trees. All trees. With no exceptions. Pines, beeches, oaks, birches, plane trees, chestnut trees, etc. The cypress trees at graveyards weren’t spared the hunger for warmth. For life.

      We’re running out of wood.

      I know.

      So what are you going to do about it?

      I don’t know.

      You don’t know!? What do you mean?

      I don’t know.

      What do you mean?

      Like I said, I don’t know.

      And who is supposed to know then?

      He stared at the orange jumping game of raw energy through the blackened glass, the sight of it itself keeping

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