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The Bee Farmer
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
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The idea had been simple enough when his editor proposed it, a story about the mysterious fate of the disappearing bees.
Now, after weeks of interviews with scientists and bee farmers, he found himself on this lonely road, in the middle of nowhere Arkansas.
As he pulled up a long gravel drive, he noticed the air was pregnant with bees.
He knocked on the farmhouse door. A grizzled, bearded bear of a man answered.
“I wanted to ask you about the bees on your farm.”
“I reckon I’ll have to kill you like I killed the others,” sighed the farmer.