Crafting Table
Summer, 2026
THEY SPENT the afternoon planting wheat. They planted it within the stone walls of the plot behind the house, and what made this work—what made it take the afternoon—was the task of clearing what had been there before: The plot was where the apiary had been, which months earlier they had enclosed within spruce fencing under a roof of oak. The bees had either left or died—either way there was no honey, no honeycomb—and for several months it had sat...
