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Stories tagged Bee:

• Anansi and the Bee Aug 17, 2025

  

  Now hear of Anansi, who loved to press his long nose where secrets slept. One bright morning, while the dew still clung to spiderwebs like pearls, Anansi spotted a procession: bees moving with the surety of rain toward a mango tree heavy with flowers.

  The bees kept to a strict order — each with its small bundle of pollen, each humming a different note like a tiny drum. Anansi, whose fingers were quick and whose mind was quicksilver, saw a chance for mischief. “If I take a bee’s store, I will taste sweetness without the work,” he thought. He reached a long hand toward the buzzing line.