The Murmur of Bees

by Sofía Segovia

War was waged by men. What could God do against their free will?

In her world, a woman never left her parents behind, even when the parents left her.

Because they were heading toward life, yes, but that did not mean that life would be easier.

sheets that were not mine. I never cared, because it had all been Simonopio’s, and in that confused world I’d arrived in, the one thing I knew with complete clarity from the beginning, because he always told me firmly, was that he was my brother.