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Ursa Major (cont')

A human appears

Ursa Major (cont')7 The enormous gantry of halogen arc lights turned night into day as they splashed their hot, humming radiance across the deck of the rig. High above the platform a gas flare burned relentlessly into the oil-black sky. During the night a regular flotsam of charred and stricken birds fell from this huge flame into the catch net below like moths scorched by a candle. The gas flare was an irresistible magne...

Ursa Major (cont')

The bear finds finds itself to be no longer the master of its own destiny.

Ursa Major Continued4 The seal launched itself into the water like a black torpedo in a disappearing sheath of silver bubbles. It was no longer the cumbersome inhabitant of the land but was transformed into its antithesis; a creature entirely of the sea able to glide, dive and rise effortlessly. No obvious propulsion was in evidence to cause its slippery speediness. It could turn about - even turn full circle - within les...

Ursa Major

Greed, lust, displacement all set within the framework of a belief in the natural order of things.

Ursa Major1 High on the iron-blue mountain where the tall trees begin to shorten and the ground is steep, cradled in a quiet bowl is an almost forgotten place. Nestling unseen, beneath one of the few remaining gnarled ash trees, shielded by the rustle of the brittle brown leaves and blanketed in deep snow there is a narrow entrance. This entrance leads to a cave, a silent cave that nothing has visited for the longest of t...