Bear Obsession: A very bad teddy

by James Sykes

This story is about a Teddy Bear. Children often grow up with a special stuffed companion. I still have mine after almost thirty years of friendship. I often wonder what he would think about me growing up and going on with my life, when he is left to fall down the side of the bed.Was Winnie the Pooh sad because Christopher Robin grew up and leave the world of childhood and fantasy behind and abandoned? So I have started a story about a teddy bear with issues. I've had a theory I like to sometimes share with people that Winnie the Pooh teaches children about bad qualities to develop. He gets his head stuck inside his jar of honey. He overindulges in it can often be found among many empty jars after binging on his "drug" of choice.The real story Winnie tells is saying goodbye to the innocent childhood world of make believe. This lead me off to thinking about a different kind of a teddy bear. This is a story about what it might take a bear to push him over the edge and when innocence is guilty of doing horrible things. The bear in my story teaches about gluttony and obsession, this is a confused bear with abandonment issues and bad ideas.

184 pages, Paperback

Published June 6, 2018