Bees

 

The house was full of bees.

In the beginning, there had just been a few, buzzing from room to room, looking for a way out, so they’d caught them up in jars and released them outside.

After a few days, it became alarming. There were bees in every room, climbing up the windows and zooming erratically this way and that.

When there were hundreds of bees, the people ran out of the house and slammed the door behind them.

They watched in mute horror and fascination as the bees literally piled up at the windows, a living, swarming tidal wave.