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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 Sidhe never smiles.

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Time passes by. The kid got used to walking down the track to the roadside each school day to catch the bus. Bethan got used to letters from the school. I got used to receiving news a couple of days late for a dollar. A local man had a smal...

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Tink: Good Job, Kid

What ghost horses?

The ones that keep trampling over the Hags

The Hags? What damn Hags?

The Hags, the Hags! Sheesh, Bill, try to keep up! Gimme another tissue

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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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