Category: stories

Drucilla has had enough of interviewing strange characters for a while. The new beehive ist built and now the colony is moving in. These are stories about the colony itself.

A Gift from a True Friend

The knock on the door was far too timid to be Dalton. Drucilla was lying on her bed, deep in thought. The knock was so soft, she thought she may have only imagined it. After all, who would have the audacity to knock on the queen’s bedroom door without being asked to do so?

The timid knock came again. Drucilla sat up. At first, she wanted to punish whoever it was that dared to disturb her rest. Then she thought better of it. That was something the old Drucilla would have done. The new Drucilla had no intention to punish anyone anymore. Without even knowing who was there, Drucilla was prepared to let her visitor come in and state his business.

Responding to the queen’s command, the door opened slowly and Helen’s face appeared in the room. “I hope I’m not disturbing you,” she whispered. “I just wanted to see how you were doing.”

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Back to Business as Usual

Drucilla B. Queen packed the last of her things together with a strange feeling of sadness. The royal living quarters of the insect hotel had hardly been comfortable but life had been easy for her here. She had little to do as queen, since the hotel had its own management. That would change today. As soon as she entered the new beehive, she would be Queen Drucilla again. The grand bee sighed when she thought of ruling again. It was very rare that a queen bee could give up her responsibilities and retire.

Drucilla B. Queen

She smiled as she Drucilla carried her box out into the corridor in front of the royal living quarters. No one would dare let her carry her anything in the beehive.  As she put the box down on the floor,  she noticed an unusual piece of brown paper sticking out from under a wooden stool on the other side of the corridor. She was just about to see what the brown paper was attached to, when Dalton rushed in and snatched a rather large package away from her before she could get to it.

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