Firewood cover art

Firewood

Preview

Get 30 days of Standard free

£5.99/mo after trial. Cancel monthly.
Try for £0.00
More purchase options

Firewood

By: J. Robert Lennon, Halimah Marcus
Narrated by: Nicholas Techosky
Try for £0.00

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £4.24

Buy Now for £4.24

About this listen

"If there’s a lesson to be learned, it’s that logic is the sworn enemy of grief," writes Halimah Marcus, co-editor of Electric Literature, in her introduction to “Firewood,” a hilarious and devastating story by J. Robert Lennon. "When the narrator’s wife (expectedly) leaves him, too devastated to admit the obvious, he concocts an impossible explanation for her disappearance. All I’ll say is that it involves the woodpile. The invented story is more horrible than the truth, but somehow easier to manage. With remarkable efficiency Lennon exposes the masochistic part of us that takes twisted comfort in worst-case scenarios."

©2013 Electric Literature. Authors hold the rights to their individual works. (P)2013 Audible Inc.
Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Literature & Fiction Short Stories Witty

Continue the series

The Cottage on the Hill cover art
The Cottage on the Hill By: J. Robert Lennon, and others
No reviews yet