November 11: Intruder Kindly welcome foreign folk Sit awhile, exchange what spoke How’s the husband? How’s the wife? How’s the hand...

November 10: People There be People in the world outside the Hive. Much like us, oh yes. Some will buzz. Some will harvest. Some will...

November 9: Familiar What crawls back you cast aside? Discarded rotten? Buried live? What home kept you classified? Regard forgotten?...

November 8: Treasure "I found a thing today." "What kind of thing?" "Is it a thingy-thing?" "What kind of thingy-thing?" "Can I be a...

November 7: Natives Divvied sanctum border state Flags at mast in colonnade Furrowed terrace owned and paid Cash amassed for profit made...

November 6: Visitor "Who stands at the gate?" "Who treads on the way?" "Who goes?" "Who rides?" "Who waits at bay? "Who speaks who never...

November 5: Business "A decision?" "What is that?" "As a Queen does!" "The worker shall now!" A sewing needle doesn't choose silk Nor an...

November 4: Settlement Life isn't fleeting Life is a fleet And the time for unfurled sails Is now But hiveless girls are throneless...

November 3: Freedom A silence rattles these our ladies. No familiar buzzing but their own. White-knuckle hand in white-knuckle hand....

November 2: Escape See now the dregs of royal sloth, Of girls anew Old girls forgot The cycle weaves a bitter cloth A girl will speak,...

November 1: Hive This is the end This is the end But this is the pulse Where beats begin The Wax-Crowned Queen on her Sugar Throne Wields...

The Game Our November, and Nothing More is an interactive storywriting challenge for National Novel Writing Month, played out from...