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Playing to the Bear


A General Fiction Short Story

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In Playing to the Bear, exclusive for Kindle, the narrator finds herself standing with Jamie—her ex-boyfriend’s stepdaughter—in the apartment she’d practically lived in so many years before.

The apartment had very little furniture now, and the floors gleam unnaturally.

Jamie, now a lovely young woman, had begged her to come because she wanted one of the adults in her life to tell her every secret, every subtext after the fact.

She thought the filled-in knowledge would keep her standing, and able to decipher the real meaning of things.

Then, Jamie began to take off her clothes.. .

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