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The Boy Who Kept the Bees
Ashcombe keeps its bees on a south wall above the low orchards, and a hive that one family has tended for six generations becomes a small god with a job, and the job is the orchard.
- ~16 min
- 3637 words
- 2 branch points
- 3 endings
- 34 plays
Content notice (7)
- An unpaid debt owed to a small god
- A family that read a contract wrongly, then rightly
- A sixteen-year-old worker, never a romantic interest
- Institutional pressure and a collector's office
- A blight year and a lost crop
- A bound four-year labour term with no exit
- A permanently unanswerable question
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count