It came from Catherine George

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Catherine George’s story “The Bear Wife” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 15 February 2019. The first line of this story popped into my head while I, like the bear wife herself, was up in the middle of the night nursing a two-month-old baby. Around that time, I’d been researching local baby and mum yoga classes and reading animal wife and selkie stories, so apparently my sleep-deprived brain mashed the two together. I wrote the …

The Bear Wife – Catherine George

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The bear wife took the cub to mommy and me yoga. She didn’t look much like a bear without her fur, but somehow the other mothers seemed to sense it; when she came in carrying the cub they shifted away, drifting on their yoga mats closer to the windows, to each other. She was left alone in the middle like a stone dropped into a lake, each woman a wave rippling outward. In tree pose she …

A question for Catherine George

Q: What would your characters say about you?

A: I like to think that Sara, the bear wife, would want to be part of my parent friend group, but I suspect she would tease me for my city-bred ways and middling outdoor survival skills. (Like Aaron, her husband, I enjoy trail running, but unlike him I’ve never seen a grizzly while running – just black bears.) She would probably also note that I’m really, really bad at yoga, whether with a baby or without.

Catherine George’s story “The Bear Wife”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 15 February 2019.
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About Catherine George

Catherine is a lawyer living in Vancouver, BC with her partner and two young children. She began writing again after more than a decade off during the maternity leave for her second child, and now writes all types of speculative short fiction.

cgfiction.com, @catinlaw

Catherine George’s story “The Bear Wife”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 15 February 2019.
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