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The Bear

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The Bear is a fiction ebook by J. Curtis. It runs 10 pages and is written in English. It is free and DRM-free. Over the course of a season — cups of rooibos, crackers and cheese — an unlikely friendship takes shape and Seth, our narrator, begins to suspect the night has always been more crowded than he realized.

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A local bear has opinions about tea and, it turns out, asks better questions than most people.

Over the course of a season — cups of rooibos, crackers and cheese — an unlikely friendship takes shape and Seth, our narrator, begins to suspect the night has always been more crowded than he realized.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Late at night, around the full moon, a bear joins me for tea. I’m still getting used to it. I suspect you're wondering how a bear can manage a teacup. The answer is—well, it’s not exactly a teacup. I’ll get to that shortly. After long days of writing I’m often awoken by character…

Details

Length

10 pages

Story Length

Short story

Genre / Category

Fiction

Audience

New Adult

About the Author

Portrait of J. Curtis

J. Curtis

J. Curtis spent years in hardware and tech before concluding that books were more interesting. He founded Tiny Worlds Publishing out of Northern California, where he publishes emerging authors and edits The Midnight Vault — a Twilight Zone-adjacent anthology that is also, somehow, a live event. His debut novel, ISLA, arrives in 2026. He came up in tech. It shows in the architecture; it doesn't show in the prose, which he considers a win.

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