Word for Word: Adz

I’m in a writers’ group that meets on Zoom, though before the pandemic we met in the back room of a nonprofit bakery. Every week, we do a writing prompt: someone gives a page number, and our organizer picks a word from a huge dictionary. In this example, the word is: Adz.

A photo I took hiking by the Columbia Gorge.

I enjoyed living in my log cabin in the woods, far from people. My only companions were the flora and fauna and the wind in the trees and the distant whisper of…