· Piteå, Sweden
The beekeeper's gate.
From the journal of the Wolf of the North · a work of fiction
The Sjöbergs hid in their orchard after a reindeer burst through the beekeeper's gate. Their son had a bee sting and the gate hung crooked against the hedge.
I moved the hive before freeing the trapped gate. The reindeer fled into the pines; the bees stayed with their queen. We tended the boy's hand on the porch and counted two disasters that had become none.