Sawdust Heart

Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec. 1995.Mill foreman Raymond Leblanc arrives before dawn for another shift at the aging Leblanc lumber mill, a collapsing timber relic buried beneath frost, pine dust, and decades of hard labor.By sunrise, he is dead beside his lathe.The coroner rules cardiac arrest.The autopsy says otherwise.Raymond's lungs are found packed solid with fresh sawdust despite no active cutting,...