The curtains in her room, billowing with the morning breeze the spongy hills leading down to the hives the bees themselves, round and busy as May became June. Those were the days when she was in love with everything. Amelia GrayĮsther was sixteen the summer that all the bees in her father’s hives died. But experiments aside, the protagonist’s earnest attention to the world around her is what kept my attention and stuck in my memory-that, and an ending which would absolutely meet the qualifications for Esther’s carnal taxonomy. I love a story which doubles as a bit of a science experiment, backing up claims with evidence as this does, while moving deftly through a good story.
“Birds x Bees” is a sharply rendered story of a teenager’s speculative curiosity at sixteen, the most painful of ages, not dissimilar to a hundred bee stings down one’s forearm. K.Katharine Duckett’s “Birds x Bees” is one of three winners of the 2022 CRAFT Amelia Gray 2K Contest, guest judged by Amelia Gray.
Howling at the moon: tales of an urban werewolf by Karen MacInerney.Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale.Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George.A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb.How to see yourself as you really are by Dalai Lama XIV.The Geography of bliss: one grump's search for the happiest places in the world by Eric Weiner.The author imagines them so vividly you almost think that there must be some basis in fact. Realistically Helen must have had feelings about the man she was married to, her brothers and sister, the country she lived in etc. It is very interesting for me to read about a well-known character and to imagine an more in-depth existence for them. From there the adventures just continue to grow. The political winds are changing and so the three siblings change up their traveling plans to avoid some unwelcome company and so stop at Delphi. When her sister is betrothed and finally ready to go and live in her new husband's house, Helen goes with Castor and Polydeuces to deliver her and meets up with some mythological heroes. She sets about making herself formidable as well by obtaining some secret training like her brothers (Castor and Polydeuces) receive. Even as a young girl though she knows her beauty will not always be enough. Helen had always been the pretty twin and the heir to be Queen of Sparta.
This is about Helen as a woman-child, meeting mythological heroes and making her own decisions in a time when women were supposed to be passive. This is the story about Helen of Troy and how the author imagined her to be more than just a pretty face that got kidnapped and started the Trojan War.
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