RedCrown Woods: The Tree that hated Everyone (St. Eubrie) (877 hits)
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Submitted by GodChicken <Monty> (View user info) at 2006-08-07 00:34:56 EDT
Covered in dust over in a corner of the library across from Wilbeck High, you can find a book on top of the encyclopedia and reference section. It's propped up on a little stand under the mural depicting the town's origins. Both were completed in 1963, the town's bicentennial anniversary. Nobody much pays attention to either of them anymore. I'm Anna Heathern, the librarian. I try to keep this place up, the encyclopedias are 20 years old but the funding just isn't there for me to go around buying new ones.
I really like that old book though. The stories in it are written by kids long gone. Ghosts who I still see taking college placement exams in the dim light at tables scratched and chipped by 50 years of careless kids and their backpacks.
All of them are about things and places around town. Sometimes you get the best history of the town from the kids who grew up living in it, because they hear all the rumours us old folk pass around. Better to have our history written down before it's all buried out in the cemetary, just like half the people I used to know.
Let me show you my favorite one in there, if you've got time.
No, I'm not busy. Look around. It's a Saturday. I've been alone all day except for the squirrels that live in the big trees out on the lawn.
Here it is, page 17.
The Tree that hated Everybody, by Ronnie Lewis. Funny, I don't remember what happened to him.
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Way out in Redcrown woods, close to the old Mennonite farm, is a tree. It's a big tree, hanging over a part of the creek that comes from the pond that the farm used to have. The tree used to have a tire swing on it, but it broke. Everytime we went out there to swim or play, somebody got hurt. We used to like to go there, Mom said that we aren't allowed out by the ruins anymore because the ambulance can't get out there and the firefighters are tired of coming to get us.
I liked to go out there and play army with my friends, because there were lots of acorns to use as bullets and there are lots of places to hide. We don't go over by the tree though. It doesn't like us. One time Marty tried to climb it and a branch broke. He fell and somehow seemed to hit every branch on the way down, it was funny. It wasn't funny afterwards because he couldn't get up and his arm was bent all weird, and somehow it ended up stuck inside a hole in the tree.
The tree is scary because it looks like it has a face on it that is yelling at you. Marty got his arm stuck in the part of it that is the mouth. That was funny because it looked like it was trying to eat him. Sometimes I dream about the tree and I wonder why it is so mad at everyone. I wish the tree was nicer because it would be neat to have a fort in it.
I think the tree is angry because of something that happened to it a long time ago. People say the Mennonites aren't there anymore because the Indians got angry with them, but nobody knows for reals.
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Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2006-11-01 22:04:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-08-27 22:23:30 EDT (#)
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Great idea.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-08-09 01:31:39 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Life101 (user info) at 2006-08-08 19:16:32 EDT (#)
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Where dose one find a picture like that
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2006-08-08 19:06:04 EDT (#)
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I won't be picky about tiny typos (insert ironic laugh here).
Is this to be continued?
Also, it was SHORT.
I could have gotten 27 pages out of this.
But kids playing army in the woods and seeing weird shit?
Man, that was my childhood.
Wait a minute... didn't you say you are gonna get into the whole Mennonite thing?
*sits back with a big bowl of popcorn*
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2006-08-07 23:41:30 EDT (#)
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Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-08-07 22:25:02 (#)
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rad.
has anyone ever read "Bridge to Terabithia"?
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That and "Tuck Everlasting" have to be two of the most classic of children's books from our generation.
Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-08-07 22:25:02 EDT (#)
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rad.
has anyone ever read "Bridge to Terabithia"?
Submitted by goferforhire (user info) at 2006-08-07 22:24:44 EDT (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/91450
we could connect these
Submitted by KindaNews (user info) at 2006-08-07 22:15:50 EDT (#)
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1.5
Submitted by KindaNews (user info) at 2006-08-07 22:15:35 EDT (#)
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Interesting.
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2006-08-07 20:24:41 EDT (#)
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Excallent!
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-08-07 11:50:55 EDT (#)
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this is like an X-Files
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2006-08-07 11:31:21 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-08-07 10:27:49 EDT (#)
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made me smile. but i wanted to be frightened.
*cries*
Submitted by SpikeGoddess (user info) at 2006-08-07 10:19:23 EDT (#)
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I like how you use the voice of a child so effectively. I hope there will be more of this!
Submitted by jade_digitalmedia (user info) at 2006-08-07 09:35:04 EDT (#)
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If the giving tree had an evil twin brother this would be him.
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-08-07 06:44:28 EDT (#)
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Little known fact: Monty was in full drag when he wrote this. Rouge, mascara, lipstick, tight little sundress. He always has to get in character. Today he was dressed as a librarian.
Submitted by stok (user info) at 2006-08-07 03:24:37 EDT (#)
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Did he come or what?
Submitted by coley (user info) at 2006-08-07 01:38:42 EDT (#)
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Nice.
Good stuff, Monty..and this is the 1st St Eubrie's thingie I've read.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-08-07 01:28:23 EDT (#)
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This was great!
I loved the way you set it up. A very interesting format, indeed!
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2006-08-07 00:58:21 EDT (#)
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Thanks. It's been a long, slow crawl back to being myself again, and I think I'm almost there.
Submitted by awesome_face (user info) at 2006-08-07 00:52:28 EDT (#)
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creepy, good to see you finally post.