What the Presser Told Us on the Wet Day
A short story about a homesick fifteen-year-old in a rain-stopped New Zealand shearing shed, and the old wool presser who tells him a fable…
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The Bee Inspector of Petal Row
When a district inspector arrives to condemn an old orchard's hives, she finds one colony behaving in a way no textbook can explain. What…
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The Beekeeper Who Listened to Letters
On a hillside of clover and clover-bees, an old beekeeper opens the season's mail by holding each envelope to the hive and waiting for what…
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