For Love of the Axe or the Tree is a haunting parable about love, loyalty, and the quiet ways we harm what we cherish most.
When devotion and destruction share the same hand, the hardest question isn’t what we love—but how.

What happens when love is genuine—but understanding is not?

For Love of the Axe or the Tree is a lyrical parable about relationships built on devotion, imbalance, and unexamined power. Told through a mythic yet intimate lens, the story explores how people can nurture connection with one hand while unknowingly holding the very thing that causes harm with the other.

This is not a tale of villains and victims.
It is a story of good intentions, blurred boundaries, and the fragile space where care and control coexist.

Through spare prose and symbolic tension, Cory B. Scott invites readers to confront uncomfortable truths about loyalty, dependence, and the cost of loving without awareness. The result is a story that lingers—asking readers not to judge the characters, but to recognize themselves.

This parable is for anyone who has ever meant well…
and later wondered what they were really holding.