A very, very short story published on the 50-Word Stories website!<\/p>\n
LYNNE NORTH: Progress<\/a><\/p>\n August 27, 2015<\/a> Artistic<\/a>, Submissions<\/a> civilization<\/a>, Lynne North<\/a>, nature<\/a>, tree<\/a><\/p>\n ‘People pass; most don\u2019t notice my existence.<\/p>\n I lived through two world wars, bearing witness to horrors. I harmed no one.<\/p>\n Yet they want me gone.<\/p>\n They come to end my life. I hear the saws, suffer the cuts in my trunk. Soon I will fall.<\/p>\n They call it progress.’<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lynne North writes humorous fantasy novels for children. She decided it was time she tried something else\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A very, very short story published on the 50-Word Stories website! LYNNE NORTH: Progress August 27, 2015 Artistic, Submissions civilization, Lynne North, nature, tree ‘People pass; most don\u2019t notice my existence. I lived through two world wars, bearing witness to horrors. I harmed no one. Yet they want me gone. They come to end my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,142,143],"tags":[144,89,110],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-promotion","category-lynne-north","category-short-stories","tag-fiction","tag-short-stories","tag-twist-in-the-tale"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnenorth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}