I Read Stories: Bear Creek Issue 9

Bear Creek Issue 9

Here are three of my favourite pieces from Bear Creek Gazette Issue 9, yet my taste is personal and fallible so you might wish to look further.

The Glove by Drew Buxton

There’s a boy whose only joy in life is eating McDonalds. There’s a bacteria that shuts down all the hamburger restaurants.

Then they reopen. But the boy and his father are not the only ones who want McDonalds and someone has broken out of jail to get hold of it.

Very funny.

Scenes from Hesiod (I): The Castration of Uranus and the Birth of Aphrodite by Sarah Royston

Exactly what it says, an exquisite first person description of the Titanomachy from Greek myth.

Stone Soup by Michael Rodman

The legend/folk tale/parable of the stone soup is hilariously re-told, going down unexpected and weird rabbit holes before ending up at an unexpectedly literal and silly ending.