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Lee Burton is a Percy Janes First Novel Award winner, and a finalist in The Writers of the Future contest. In 2023, he'll be publishing the first of his Speaker Series stories.

He lives in St. John's, Newfoundland, where for the past ten years he has worked as an author and freelance editor. Though his stories are diverse, they all revel in the music of words and celebrate imagination.

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BURLY BUSH MAN

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The misery and beauty of tree planting in Canada

Logging + a gang of dirty young people + a shovel + a bag of trees = an industry

CHAPTER 10

SHADOWS AND TALL TREES

Rob’s demotion and my transfer to Gerard’s crew came as no surprise. But suddenly all the unwritten rules were different. Hank called Shelly, Josh, and I aside in the morning and told us the news. After Chris the quiet na

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