A Short Story from the Patrick Denny Series Twelve-year-old Patty Denny loves his father’s chilling campfire stories. The scarier and more gruesome, the better for a boy who craves the thrill of being terrified. But during a family camping trip deep in the New England woods, one of his father’s ominous tales of supernatural vengeance comes to life around him and portends a tragic turn of events that shatters Patty’s world and changes his life forever. Discover the harrowing origin story that sets young Patrick Denny on his path from a carefree boy to the man he becomes in Why Did God Make the Tree?Word ~6000 words (approx. 25-minute read)