Seeing the empty porridge bowls on their return, the bears tiptoed upstairs.

They checked Little Bear’s bedroom. The bed was ruffled!

Then the Middle Bear’s bedroom: likewise ruffled.

But in Big Bear’s bedroom the bed was neat. He exclaimed, “You lazy lot! Don’t you make your own beds?”

Stuart Larner is a chartered psychologist. He has published poems and stories in magazines and newspapers and for the stage,  as well as articles in scientific journals. Stuart has written an ebook in verse, “Jack Daw and the Cat”, and a novel  about  cricket entitled “Guile and Spin”. See more of his work at stuartlarner.blogspot.com.