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Tales from the Burning Bear

Steve Kelsey

The Burning Bear is a strange attractor for the weird, baroque and alternately real, and that's just its customers. The tales they tell are best heard with a stiff drink to hand.

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A note on the table in Pa’s hand.

Holly-green ink on a page ripped from a spiral pad

No text.

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    I lived through the first Cold War. I’m a Londoner, contrary, widely traveled, prone to wild exaggeration and prevarication in equal measure. I make a hopeless role model. “... your views are just utterly incoherent“ Dan Lyndon - critic

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