The Teddy Bear Singularity

by Stephen Beam

Nica works at home, lovingly repairing teddy bears. Retiring for the night, she is awakened, along with every other resident in Crestville, by a loud cracking noise that shakes every cabin in town. The next day, paranormal investigators already know of the incident and begin questioning the townsfolk.

Nica's friend Nellie had insomnia the other night and saw an object falling from the sky, landing nearby in the woods. After speaking with the investigators, the two friends hike into the forest to uncover the mystery. A horror ensues that no one could have imagined and otherworldly forces invoke a most unlikely savior.

46 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 28, 2011

About the author

Stephen Beam is a native Californian. For many years he was a video game artist, starting out freelancing, then later employed full time at Interplay Entertainment. He created game art as diverse as Nintendo's Mario Brothers to realistic Star Trek worlds. He moved on to work as a graphic artist and web designer, creating games and presentations for various government services such as the Long Beach MWD and many VA hospitals around the country. He is now writing bizarre mixed genre fiction.

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Reviews

[Stephen Beam · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Teddy Bear Singulariy is explained in the title of the book.
Definition:
sin·gu·lar·i·ty/ˌsiNGgyəˈlaritē/
Noun:
The state, fact, quality, or condition of being singular.
A peculiarity or odd trait.
Synonyms:
peculiarity - oddity - strangeness

This book is about an odd, strange, singular teddy bear. This is fiction. Toy Teddy bears don't come to life. I don't think they do.

The Teddy Bear Singularity is similar in concept to the novel "Winkie" by Clifford Chase. Why? they both describe a toy that becomes a living being.

Toys don't come to life. There is no logical explanation available for this type of event. The inner logic of this story suggests the teddy bear never really was a teddy bear.

[Kristy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Okay, so I know it's an off the wall name, but I thought it could be interesting...and it was free on Kindle! I was fine with the book for the first 2/3 of it. It's broken into 3 chapters, and chapter 2 was the best one. Chapter 1 just focused too much on Nica overcoming her grief and working as a seamstress repairing teddy bears; which of course is information we needed to know, but it seemed drawn out. Chapter 2 was far better, because here we have Nica and her friend Nellie going investigate into the landing of the strange phenomena (spaceship, craft, vehicle, physical body we're not really sure). Chapter 3 just took the story to a completely different level...in a bad way. Here we have a maniac who appears in Nica's house and begins doing an anal probe on her and Nellie, stating that he has been hired by the aliens from the spaceship (or craft, vehicle, physical body we still don't know). Then the maniac decides he needs some fun and wants to kill them. He begins to torture them, only to be stopped by a teddy bear that Nica found beside the spaceship (yeah, we still don't know but I'm tired of repeating myself). The teddy bear has a long fight with the maniac, in which the teddy bear continues to grow larger every time the maniac harms it. Finally the teddy bear wins and disposes of the man ("eats" would be the better word). Here's my problem in case it wasn't obvious: WHY DOES THE BEAR COME ALIVE?!?! There is nothing to state what happened here, no reasoning behind it. If the bear is an "opposite force" than the spaceship (you know what I'm thinking!) like the author suggests, then what exactly is this opposite force and where did it come from? Nica prays to God throughout the book, so is the bear supposed to be sent from Heaven to protect her? Bizarre.