A novelette in 20 chapters

Telling the Bees: Chapter 20

Market Day

Steve Fendt
Serial Stories
Published in
4 min readApr 15, 2024

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A group of honeybees on a timber background.
‘Life of the Hive’ by Steve Fendt

It was a perfect April morning amidst the thickly forested hills of the Upper Yarra Valley, full of light and warmth and the songs of insects and birds. Rivers of bees spiralled upward and were lost to the eye in that impossible blue, while others descended in reciprocal streams.

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Steve Fendt
Serial Stories

https://stevefendt.substack.com Short stories, serial fiction, memoirs of a possibly quasi-true nature. Stories of the Australian beach and bush.