My good friend Richard (Rick) Bowes has published a story at Electric Velocipede called “The Bear Dresser’s Secret”. It’s a very different sort of story from the kind Rick is known for. Instead of a gritty, contemporary New York City, or a working class 1950s Boston, here Rick enters a much more playful realm of pure invention, and his sense of humor gets a place to put itself on display. I highly recommend this story to anyone wanting a silly, witty, fun jaunt today.
Christopher Barzak
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Christopher Barzak 
I just read it for the first time and it’s WONDERFUL!
LOL. If you do say so yourself. 🙂
Just read Rick’s story. Loved it! ….elephants of Countess Barzuki, with a new Celtic dance routine…that paints a picture in my mind of something quite familiar.
I love it too!
Sigistrix, Grismerelda, Freluchia and Countess Barzuki!?
I ‘ll talk it to my grandchildren when the time comes, may be someday……