IF PLANTS COULD TALK

I HAD A BAD DREAM the other night.

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I was in court. I had just been convicted of many horrible crimes and now it was time for victim-impact statements.

One by one, all the snakebark maples I've killed went to the witness box: Acer pennsylvanicum, A. tegmentosum, grosseri, grosseri var. hersii, davidii, rufinerve, capillipes, 'Erythrocladum', 'White Tigress' and others, all of them blaming me for their untimely, cankerous deaths. As 'White Tigress' spoke, I couldn't take it anymore.