SleepySyme's 100-word story for May 6, 2025

SleepySyme wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on May 6, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

"Did you hear that the queen is dead?" "What?!? Nobody told me!! It's the end of the colony!! Disaster!" "No, not our queen you idiot. The queen of those giant, white, puffy creatures who keep moving us around and taking our honey." "What, those things that look like giant larvae have a different queen to us?" "Apparently so, Brenda from frame 6, you know Brenda, no better than she ought to be. Anyway, she was outside and this creature bent down, put their face next to our front door, and quietly said " The queen is dead"" "Why?" "Not a clue!"

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