by R. Scott Boyer | Jan 28, 2025 | Short Stories
Related previous posts: Bees Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 Bees, Pt 4 All that night, Honey cried in her cubicle, crushed by the disorientation she’d encountered and the danger she’d felt. I can’t go out there again, she told herself. It’s too scary. Well, you can’t stay...
by R. Scott Boyer | Jan 21, 2025 | Short Stories
Related previous posts: Bees, Part 1 / Part 2 Bees, Pt 3 Almost immediately, the collective set about the arduous task of converting the narrow space between the outer and inner walls into a habitable hive. Collecting pollen from the garden, they quickly rebuilt the...
by R. Scott Boyer | Jan 14, 2025 | Short Stories
Related previous posts: Bees, Part 1 Bees, Pt 2 Honey huddled for a long time in the remnants of the fallen oak, now reduced to a lump of logs and broken branches. The honeycomb had been carefully placed into a metal box, which was then sealed shut. Some of Honey’s...
by R. Scott Boyer | Jan 7, 2025 | Creative Process, Inspiration, Meet the Characters, Short Stories
Here is another short story inspired by the same backyard that prompted Dandelions. Unlike the Dandelions story, however, this tale is based on a series of real life events. When a hive took up residence inside the wall of as house on a hillside, the question became...
by R. Scott Boyer | Apr 28, 2023 | Creative Process, Inspiration, YA World
Since I haven’t posted in a while, I thought it might be nice to update folks on my latest writing projects. As many of you know, I wrote and published two books in the Bobby Ether series; Jade Academy and Temple of Eternity. The first book actually fell out of...