The Orange & Bee
The Orange & Bee, Laurel Benjamin, Sel Sezer, miguel ramos, C. L. Sidell, Carina Bissett, Emily, Lisarobynwrights, M Frost, Alin HaberleMagical stories for enchanted readers
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Fairy tales: a classic essay by GK Chesterton
We are delighted to bring you one of GK Chesterton’s classic essays on fairy tales. He wrote hundreds of essays, quite a few of which grapple with why we should read fairy tales, and about why they are a rich and necessary part of a child’s...
Interview: Marisca Pichette
The Orange & Bee are delighted to be the publishers of Marisca Pichette’s flash fiction ‘The Witches of Western Mass’ (Issue eleven).
Marisca Pichette is a queer author based in Massachusetts. She has published more than three hundred piec...
The Witches of Western Mass
This Halloween, we’re all about witches! The good, the bad, and the green. By the same token, Marisca Pichette draws on the concept of witches from different cultures and fairy tales in her flash story ‘The Witches of Western Mass’, folding...
Interview: Marianne Xenos
The Orange & Bee are delighted to be the publishers of Marianne Xenos’s short story ‘The other sister’ (Issue eleven).
Marianne Xenos is a writer and artist living in western Massachusetts. She creates stories about magic, history, and fam...
The other sister
The earliest literary version of the myth of Cupid and Psyche can be found in the second-century text Metamorphoses (also known as The Golden Ass) by Lucius Apuleius. Several key elements of the story also appear in the fairy tale type ATU...
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This is the shared email account for The Orange & Bee, edited by Carina Bissett and Nike Sulway
Laurel Benjamin is the author of Written into the Curve of the Sea's Open Throat (Shanti Arts, 2026), and Flowers on a Train (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2025). She invented a secret language with her brother. Read her work at: laurelbenjamin.com
• I write letters made of porcelain.
Miguel works as a librarian for an online library, is a musician and loves to climb mountains, jump into oceans, and ride his motorcycle at night. He writes SF, fantasy, horror and poetry, and is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop.
Tampa Bay native C. L. Sidell grew up playing with toads in the rain and indulging in speculative fiction. A Pushcart, Best of the Net, Dwarf Star Nominee and Rhysling Finalist, her work appears in 34 Orchard, Apparition Lit, Baffling, & others.
Carina Bissett is an award-winning editor, writer, and poet working primarily in the fields of dark fiction and fabulism.
Staring into the void and it doesn't have dinner plans either ⋆ ｡˚ ☁︎ ˚｡⋆ ｡˚ ☽ ｡⋆｡ Writer | Editor | Film enjoyer | Pomegranate addict
Reading addict, book hoarder, aspiring writer of true things and not so true things, terrible dog trainer.
M. Frost is a queer writer who pens poetry, snaps photos and slams stories and possibly, after dark, works on a few novels.
she/they https://alinhaberle.com/
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