I Read Stories: The Bee Thing by Maggie Damken

The Bee Thing by Maggie Damken in Strange Horizons

The narrator’s great-grandfather came back from world war one with a beehive for a head. This was not spoken about much but known, others came back with “…their heads transformed into things like rusted spoons, chipped porcelain dishes, or even eggs with spindly cracks in the shells.”

The narrator’s head has turned into a beehive and it might be stress or something but no one really knows.

She got dumped by her boyfriend and the bees keep buzzing, so she left the city where she went to college and went back home.

Read This: For a story of trying to cope with something everyone sort of knows about but doesn’t understand
Don’t Read This: If mixing of a fantastic metaphor with very real failures and a bizarrely literal resolution is not for you