I started Telling the Bees two years ago, when I saw a competition to write a novella in 15,000 words made up of flash fiction (stories of 1000 words or less). I’d had a story in my head about a woman in the future for some time and thought it would be an interesting challenge to work out how she go there by telling a series of intergenerational stories. Beginning in 1801, Telling the Bees spans 350 years in Britain taking one family from Dorset to Reading to London and back to Dorset again, as industrialisation, technology and social mores change, but humans never do. There are 15 stories in all and I’ll post one a week. Enjoy.
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