Two Stories by David Rutschman

Two stories by alum David Rutschman (fiction, ’02) appear at the Kenyon Review:

The Devil’s New Red Axe

One day the devil appeared to a simple woodcutter and offered him a new red axe. The woodcutter, dazzled, accepted the axe, which was lighter and sharper than any he had ever seen. That morning, he chopped and stacked over a week’s worth of wood; that afternoon he chopped and stacked even more.

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