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  1. Grumpy Bear
    It is indeed Freyja who is visiting Charlie in her dreams, but don't look too hard for a Kaarel in mythology, because she isn't there. Kaarel is simply Charlie's "secret name" known only to the Vanir and Æsir. She is a modern-day being and has been placed in the path Siku's life to provide influence; to nudge him in the directions that Fate has intended.
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    I think we can view the intensity of Shivay's work this week as a means of escapism. He has a big decision to make, and despite finding true love, he faces losing most of his family in return, so for several hours a day, he is able to block everything else out and simply throw himself into his job. His work will most likely find a more natural pace once the turmoil is over.
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    When I'm not writing, I'm actually a Project Manager for an international medical technology company. As I was writing this, all I could think was that Shivay would be the star of my dream team!
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    Siku slept-in on Friday morning, and Shivay got up on his own to begin work at six-thirty. He made a cup of coffee and went into his office, to check his morning email and daily workload. To his surprise, he discovered that the Project Manager had removed Gandira from the project schedule completely and had reallocated the resources with Shivay as the sole software engineer assigned to the project. He knew that any bonus that would be awarded for the success of the project following t
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    Domestic Bliss

    Grumpy Bear commented on Grumpy Bear's story chapter in Domestic Bliss

    After I gave up pretending that I could be straight if I tried hard enough, and split with my ex-wife, I soon took my boyfriend (now husband) on a trip to meet my parents for a weekend. They were kind and polite to him, and at one point, my dad managed to get my boyfriend alone with him in the den. My husband tells me that my dad asked him one question... "Do you love him?" And my husband answered... "With all my heart." From that moment, he was accepted, and a member of the family.
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    Siku woke when the alarm went of at five o’clock, and he quickly turned it off, extracting himself from between Shivay and Charlie and padding silently to the bathroom to shower and get ready for the day. When he emerged fifteen minutes later with a towel draped across his shoulders, the bed was empty, and he detected the smell of turkey bacon and eggs cooking in the kitchen below. He smiled and strode through to the closet to put on his fishing pants and a turtleneck sweater over his cust
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    Siku’s first day on the fishing boat was a dream come true. As much as he loved being on the boat out on Lake Michigan in Sturgeon Bay, he never imagined how much more he would enjoy working on a trawler in the Pacific. He was the greenhorn on the boat, and he accepted that. When he arrived at six, his crewmates regarded Charlie, sitting proudly upon his shoulder almost reverently. However, as soon as the Ship’s Cat was secure at her post in the front window of the pilothouse, the crew b
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    Working Cat

    Grumpy Bear commented on Grumpy Bear's story chapter in Working Cat

    Shivay mentioned in Chapter 8 that he works in Mountain View in Silicon Valley for one of the Big Tech giants. You can... ahem... Google that to see the name of the biggest tech giant in that town.
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    Working Cat

    Grumpy Bear posted new chapter in Worlds Apart

    Siku sat in the California Coastal Seafood office across a desk from his new Captain. The man was in his mid-fifties and was the epitome of a grizzled sea dog. He had a few days’ worth of beard stubble on his creased and lined face, and he wore a black navy watch cap and gray wool turtleneck sweater with his fishing bib pants and rubber boots. Charlie sat on Siku’s shoulder as usual, and the captain scrutinized the animal. “You have good references from your previous captain, and the
  10. Grumpy Bear
    Siku heard the car pull into the driveway a half minute before hearing the knock at the main door. Charlie ran to the door with excitement and began scratching at it with her claws, but Siku maintained a more casual pace as he walked from the kitchen into the foyer. “Charlie!” Siku whispered, “Play it cool! Don’t look too eager!” Charlie composed herself and leapt onto the long table next to the door, casually cleaning her face. “Good girl,” Siku commented before taking a deep b
  11. Grumpy Bear
    Date night is already written, and when I go back to proofread it, even I'm like...
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    Siku had been strolling around his neighborhood for about an hour before coming across a grocery store. It wouldn’t take an hour to walk home again with his purchases, since he’d taken a roundabout path to get there, but it was far enough away that he’d want to come back with his truck in the next day or two to really stock up. When he walked in the door, he was impressed with the size and apparent variety of food in the store. He wished he’d thought to go with Gunnar or Mike on a trip t
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    Siku unlocked the door and let Colt in. As soon as they were both in the foyer, Charlie jumped down from his shoulder and ran up the stairs. “She’s in a hurry,” Colt observed. “She wants dibs on the big bed in the master bedroom,” Siku replied. Colt walked into the formal living room. “Fuck, dude,” he said, “This place is huge.” Siku followed him into the living room and grinned. “Well, I just moved in this afternoon. I still haven’t quite gotten used to the size
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    Damn! I rolled the dice in order to save my poor fingers from having to type out Francisco over and over again.
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    Oops! Correct. Fixing!
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    Siku’s eyes adjusted to the darkness of the bar, lit primarily by red lighting. Most of the patrons inside were in their mid-40s or 50s, and they glanced casually at Siku, sizing him up and then one-by-one breaking out into wide grins when they got past the big bulge in his jeans and noticed the cat sitting on his shoulder. “You don’t look like the average tourist,” a jolly-looking portly fellow with a bald head and bushy beard said, standing at one end of the bar. He waved Siku to co
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    That interaction was based on a real-life experience of my own. I don't live in SF, but I live in the Keys, near Key West. One Saturday my hubby and I were hanging out in our usual bar when a bunch of women who had disembarked from a cruise ship for the day came in, and they kept going on about how famously gay Key West was, and they were so excited to have a drink in a real Key West gay bar and see the famous Key West gays! I managed to stay polite the whole time they were in the bar, but it was pretty exhausting. I ended up posing for pictures with the group, but I think our bartender photobombed at least one picture by climbing up on the bar behind us and pulling out his junk.
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    Although the story is fiction, the house itself is real...
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    Siku checked in with Gunnar to make sure that the house was going to be ready and vacant when he arrived in San Francisco. “The last renters are leaving today, and the cleaning crew is coming tomorrow morning. By noon, the place will be all yours.” “Okay,” Siku replied. “I’m nearly to the California border now. I had a most unpleasant night yesterday in a little desert town called Winnemucca. They advertised a campground, but when I got there the entire place was paved, and not a t
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    Siku headed West along Interstate 94 in North Dakota. He enjoyed the changing scenery of the flat Drift Prairie in the eastern half of the state, followed by the Great Plains and finally the stunning rock formations of the Badlands in the west. After starting his journey on the first of November, he had a few different options for the route to travel toward San Francisco once he passed Green Bay. He was not in a hurry, since the house in Sea Cliff was booked with vacation rentals until th
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    Gunnar and Siku sat in a pair of Adirondack chairs on the back patio of the lake house sipping beers with a crackling fire going in the firepit. It was mid-October, and Siku had been living and working with the Sturgeon Bay bears for almost two months. He had to admit, that it had been the best two months that he’d experienced in a long time. Atikokan had its advantages when it came to werebears living together as a community and allowing them to live openly and freely without secrets, bu
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    The alarm clock in the master bedroom went off at five o’clock. Mike swung a hairy arm over with practiced precision and gently tapped the button to make the noise stop. “Mmm, morning Papa,” Mike said rolling the other direction and throwing his arm across Gunnar’s torso, giving him a squeeze, and pressing his early-morning erection against his Papa’s ass. “Morning Cub,” Gunnar replied with a yawn. “Why don’t you go wake up our guest with that hard log of yours?” “Are you sure?”
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    Siku:
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    It was nearly two o’clock in the afternoon when Siku parked his truck at the Marina complex in Sturgeon Bay. He walked around the building to the back side facing the docks, and looked up at the sign hanging over the door. “Papa Bear’s Diner” it read, with a caricature of a brown bear sailor, puffing on a pipe. Siku smiled and walked through the door. “Sorry hon,” a female voice told him after he entered. “We’re closing in five minutes, so if you want lunch, it will have to be a ‘to-
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    Siku extracted himself from the bear pile upon his bed and padded to the kitchen to fix a pot of coffee before the others woke up. He was in the process of counting out the scoops when a pair of hairy arms wrapped around his middle, and he felt the warm breath between his shoulder blades before tender lips kissed his bare back. “Ezekiel!” Siku chuckled, “I’ve lost count of the number of scoops!” Ezekiel chuckled and ran his hands down the bear’s nude body, grasping his thick and h
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