Publication History: In 2008, "The Trees of Evermore" won first place in the North Shoreian Magazine's Annual Fiction Writing Competition, after which the story was then published in issue 9.
"The Trees of Evermore" is a short story about a boy who gets trapped by a living forest only to discover the trees believe he is the arbiter of an ancient pact made before the time of modern man. Now, young Jared needs to find a way to convince the forest who he really is and escape alive.