Story Scraps – The Boy Bear Bride

Scribbled in my notebook, there’s a little strange slip of text. It seems to be about a story I love to tell my friends, the story of the Bear Brides in Finland.

The boy bear bride

A cross-dressing accident, tethered by the ring on his finger to the dead bear

Forced to learn this culture of the women of his homeland

Those who were told they had no power, and who found a way to take it

It doesn’t matter whether or not they are bears, but that they believe they are bears.