Jay Neal

Waking Up Bear Jay Neal

"Waking Up Bear, and Other Ursine Stories", is a sexy, fun, often touching collection of Bear-themed short fiction by Jay Neal. The collection contains twenty captivating stories from periodicals such as American Bear and several Lambda Literary Award-winning anthologies, plus three stories published in this collection for the first time. Readers can turn a page and find an entire cast of interesting characters and quirky situations: a man who discovers his lover has turned into an actual bear overnight and the only way for life to return to domestic tranquility is through the intercession of a hirsute spiritualist; the Gothic erotic adventure of a man visiting a lonely lighthouse with an infamous supernatural legacy; a Gestapo officer falling in love with a French Resistance fighter during WWII occupied Paris; an alien sent to Earth to gather data on Bears; and even the confession of a man who yearns to be a filthy pig in bed but is frustrated by his timid demeanor.