Falling Trees

by Megan Gail Coles

Simeon Dredge is cutting cords for the first time. Ambitious and young, he has no concept of what working in the woods will entail, although his brother-in-law Albert provides him with plenty of unwanted reality checks. When a Commission Government representative is sent from St. John's to investigate the notoriously poor conditions in the lumber camps, Albert fears that Sim's naivete and ambition will cause him to be branded a troublemaker. Meanwhile, the CEO of the island's largest paper company fears that the arrival of the investigator will trigger the rebellion that's brewing amongst his labour force. The resulting political fallout will set in motion a cycle of exploitation that will threaten the fabric of a society for a century.

96 pages, Paperback

Published March 20, 2016

About the author

Megan Coles is a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland and the National Theatre School of Canada. She is co-founder and co-artistic director of Poverty Cove Theatre Company. Megan is currently working on a trilogy of plays examining resource exploitation in Newfoundland and Labrador titled Falling Trees, Building Houses and Wasting Paper. She is a member of the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador, Playwrights' Guild of Canada, Playwrights' Atlantic Resource Centre and Playwrights' Workshop Montreal. Her completed plays include Our Eliza, The Battery and Bound. Megan, originally from Savage Cove on the Great Northern Peninsula, currently resides in St. John's where she works at Breakwater Books. Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome is Megan's first fiction.