No Doubt About It: The Bear Was Stalking Her

1500-word fiction

No doubt about it. The bear was stalking her.

K.P. had been trying to ignore the bear for three days so she could finish her home-school class in Alaska History. The bear kept sneaking through the willow and alder forest to the edge of the yard from different directions at different times of the day.

It wasn’t much of a yard. It was a tiny cleared area ar…