{"_id":"6297698afa5c01e51eff6066","title":"The Man Who Could Imitate a Bee","publish_year":1923,"publish_source":"Harper’s Bazaar","publish_edition":"Vol. 58, Iss. 1","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/sim_harpers-bazaar_1923-01_58_1/page/68/mode/2up","author":"Richard Connell","code":"the-man-who-could-imitate-a-bee","words":4069,"image":"bee.jpg","image_alt":"A bee on its side. Graphie Filter.","genres":["quirky"],"blurb":"Lying in his bed that night the brain of Hervey Deyo entertained two thoughts. One was that Miss Low was a singularly charming girl; the other was he could not interest her by birds alone.","description":"A young scientist stoops to cheap comedy to gain the interest of a girl and her peers, but the attention quickly turns sour for the young man.","rating":5,"unique_cover":"A sketch of a party of six people sitting together with a man in the middle with pursed lips as if whistling.","cover_source":true,"has_review":true,"has_collections":[{"code":"fifteen-minute-stories","title":"15 Minute Stories","collection_type":"static"},{"code":"choice","title":"Librarian’s Picks","collection_type":"static"},{"code":"fun","title":"Fun Stories"},{"code":"quirky","title":"Best of Quirky","collection_type":"genre"}]}