We read a short story called "The Bear Got Me" by Matthew Licht. It's about an engineer who is sent to a military base in Alaska to maintain and fix their facilities. On the way he spots something moving on the road. Curiosity gets the better of him and he slows down to get a better look. As it got closer he could see a bear. He knew it wasn't an ordinary bear as it continued to chase him. Suddenly a bright light blinds him and he is forced to stop. As two soldiers approach him he visualizes the being torn apart by the bear. The vision quickly subsides and when he tells them his story they dismiss it as him having too much to drink.
The story was bizarre and I couldn't tell if he was hallucinating or not, there was no background story about the character and it was left on a cliffhanger. I guess that he was actually hallucinating because he couldn't get much sleep driving to the base. The genre of the story is a suspense-thriller as the bear did not stop chasing him and disappeared at the last second.
As the summariser I found it really difficult to summarise this story as the structure of it made it confusing. It was a challenge but I managed to do it. Next time as a summariser I would like to read another challenging book.
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