a ballad of childhood

Today's post, focuses on a flash fiction "Ballad of a bumble bee trapped in honey," which is about the senseless cruelties of childhood. But it's about more than that. It's about a moment of innocence turning. It's about a child who doesn't know something, and then he does. It's about learning to make sense of the world. It's about killing bees, but it's also about things and people remembered and lost.




The piece, by Matthew Burnside, comes from the journal Contrary. It's an independent literary journal that's run from the South Side of Chicago.

Read. Write. Think. Discover, and enjoy.
--Lori