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  "description": "ALI MCLAFFERTY",
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  "textContent": "The crackling snap of shattered wood was troubling, though most of those folks had been dead for decades; beds, tables and beams quietly surrendered to the blaze.\n\nIt was the screaming palms that pierced the heartwood. In firestorm winds their long spines arched backward, heads crowned with flaming fronds, each tree a torch passing fire to the next.\n\nBut we knobcone pines have dropped our cones. The heat has burst them open,\nscattering winged seeds to ride the wind.\n\nWe were shaped for fire. Our children will rise from the ash.\n\n* * *\n\nAli McLafferty is a writer and artist who would like to be a tree.\n\n* * *\n\n_A Knobcone Pine in the Palisades Fire_ was a finalist in our Annual Drabble contest to capture the year that was 2025 in 100 words.",
  "title": "A Knobcone Pine in the Palisades Fire",
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