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An interview with Stephen Bent, author of Trees Grow Around Wire
by Sarah Orr Aten Sarah: First things first — can you tell me a little bit about your writing? How long have you been doing it? What does writing do for you? Steve: My blog is nine years old. SteveForTheDeaf came from two things. Firstly, as a long-haired, bone-idle twenty-something I spent hours debating musicContinue reading “An interview with Stephen Bent, author of Trees Grow Around Wire”
334 days of photos; day 53
Trees Grow Around Wire
By Stephen Bret Part 3 The air outside was bright and heavy. Insects hummed in the grass. The clearing shone, almost white. Well, what passes for white around here. In each corner, where the sun caught the gravel, the bleached earth denied it had ever been mud, a bog, a puddle or dirt. It layContinue reading “Trees Grow Around Wire”
334 days of photos; day 52
Trees Grow Around Wire
By Stephen Bent Part 2: It was not a stumble; I didn’t snag my boot on a root or slip in the wet. It was a drop. It was that precipice. And I ran straight off the edge of it. Straight off of the world I’d been hurrying through and into a deep, high-sided bowlContinue reading “Trees Grow Around Wire”
334 days of photos; day 51
Trees Grow Around Wire
By Stephen Bent Part 1: I was 11 in 1985. We moved into Forester’s Cottage in early November, when the light went thin, and the trees stood like grey ribs around the clearing. Every winter before that, the streets had been lit by street lamps and rain on concrete, reflecting headlights. Living among these treesContinue reading “Trees Grow Around Wire”
