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The Fable of the Bees

April 13, 2019
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Nicole Callihan writes poems and stories. Her poetry books include SuperLoop (2014) and Translucence (with Samar Abdel Jaber, 2018), and the chapbooks: A Study in Spring (with Zoe Ryder White, 2015), The Deeply Flawed Human (2016), Downtown (2017), and Aging (2018). Her novella, The Couples, will be published by Mason Jar Press in summer 2019.

Photo by Diana Satellite.

 

She went to the hospital for an infection. Doctors found four bees living in her eye, eating her tears.
[Washington Post]

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