Waking Up Bear: & Other Ursine Stories - Paperback

by Jay Neal (Author)

"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.

Author Biography

Jay Neal, the nom-de-porn of Jeff Shaumeyer, has been an aficionado of facial hair as long as he can remember, largely thanks to the influence of Tom Selleck's mustache - a fact revealed in this, his first collection of stories. "Husky" is his favorite adjective and he likes his men like he likes his peanut butter: extra chunky. Basically a geeky, vanilla kind of guy originally from Kansas, thoughts of such men fuel his fantasies and he gains quite a bit of satisfaction from making up stories about sexual adventures with bears and their ilk. He's been writing them down since late last century. Neal, his partner of twenty-five years whom he married in 2010, and their small herd of rescued greyhounds, enjoy their life of domestic tranquility in the suburbs of Washington, DC.