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Weekly Contest #320
I am the Matriarch of Pinedrop and my story is nearly over.They came in the spring; carrying rattling, hissing cans that left a cold streak of bright orange across my bark. I knew what that mark meant. I’d seen it before on the trunks of my brothers and sisters. It meant the end was near. For 318 years, I’ve stood rooted in this earth. Over the centuries, I’d weathered insect and fungal infestations, fires that swept through and consumed vast swaths of my kin, storms that nearly tore my roots from the soil. I survived them all. But the forwa...
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