"The lioness"

"Bees are assholes, aren't they?

Short story. Echolocation: Issue 12. December 2012. 

This little story, about having to grow up at the expense of one's wild side, I wrote one afternoon on my parents' porch. I think bees were hovering around me at the time and I was nearing the half-way point of my Master's & I could feel, in the air, Adulthood coming for me (like I guess, it comes for everybody). 

Read the full story here.