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This book is for Arthur and Joyce Greene
I’m your boogie man that’s what I am and I’m here to do whatever I can ... —K.C. and the Sunshine Band
Page 3 and 4: Title Page Copyright Page Dedicatio
Page 5 and 6: Who Could Imagine . . . ? SKELETON
Page 7 and 8: THE DEAD ZONE “Frightening.”
Page 9 and 10: WORKS BY STEPHEN KING NOVELS Carrie
Page 11 and 12: The Running Man Thinner The Regulat
Page 15 and 16: SIGNET Published by New American Li
Page 17: copyright © Stephen King, 1981 REG
Page 21 and 22: Introduction Wait—just a few minu
Page 23 and 24: “You want to tell me you’re not
Page 25 and 26: telephone in the apartment for anot
Page 27 and 28: for money; you do it because it sav
Page 29 and 30: who sold most of these, and who pul
Page 31 and 32: The Mist I. The Coming of the Storm
Page 33 and 34: stone walls and all. Only the boath
Page 35 and 36: eserved exclusively for husbands an
Page 37 and 38: “Is it over?” Steff asked. “M
Page 39 and 40: from the lakefront communities call
Page 41 and 42: house had fallen in an untidy tangl
Page 43 and 44: “Well, I got the glass cleaned up
Page 45 and 46: glass and he was into death in the
Page 47 and 48: We walked down the stone steps hand
Page 49 and 50: such hurt indignation that I had to
Page 51 and 52: fogbank for a moment or two with th
Page 53 and 54: —then: “You cunt.” I began to
Page 55 and 56: “Okay.” He ran back to the hous
Page 57 and 58: geological survey having something
Page 59 and 60: guessed he’d be glad to have her
Page 61 and 62: “Come on back to the house, then.
Page 63 and 64: I didn’t like it. I felt very str
Page 65 and 66: my wife since then. We had to stop
Page 67 and 68: electricity, but both the Bridgton
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jangle and the woman squawked her s
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Weeks. I liked Ollie but didn’t c
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miles or so away. These two looked
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eyond. The view was partially obscu
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“No,” I said at once, for no co
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the far side of the checkout lanes
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when we first noticed it on the far
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arm before he drifted out of reach.
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Rumford and South Paris. Chemicals.
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the hand of a little girl, maybe a
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at his hand and he let her go, sham
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diesel fumes, and they were much to
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market. Three or four people were r
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The generator died again. The bag-b
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“This is crazy,” I said. “You
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maybe four or five feet where it di
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fallen off. A new tentacle came out
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shoulder and blundering into the ge
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Ollie, crying inside the plywood co
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go back into the market, but you wa
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V. An Argument with Norton. A Discu
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“Plate glass,” Myron LaFleur wh
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“Yes, him.” “He passed out an
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about, and what was happening—or
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him has got a heart.” “You keep
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ack his hair. His eyes darted betwe
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elieve! Which one of you wants to g
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of boxes and bags. “They did this
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They would sober off all too soon.
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with three horn combs and twisted i
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palm. But her black eyes seemed to
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People began to break up, talking a
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He handed it over and Ollie checked
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“I got a look at the way you two
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thinking, When she got that, she wa
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The man at the loophole next to min
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cussing and thinking himself unobse
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“Brent,” I said, and held out m
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came again, low and tearing and sav
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out by the beer cooler. Six new men
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didn’t ask any of them.” “How
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sickened voice. He was standing at
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That bag. That sliding bag. “Smal
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was great agony. It took off with a
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swept the dead pink thing—bug, sl
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Others screamed in their sleep, and
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write, you think God put you on ear
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disappointed expectation—that che
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like this place, not after what had
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atoms. Now these bodies hanging fro
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egan outside the steel loading door
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erection was enormous. We lay down
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happened would freeze them. Miller
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Drayton. Norton and his four ... wh
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“What are you getting at?” “W
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perfect. What was she saying to her
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She dropped her eyes. “Yes. I sup
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uddy Jim (also hungover, but seemin
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Star Wormwood blazes and each one o
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almost completely useless to them.
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some of them. Mike Hatlen was prodd
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winding-up snaps. His jugular went
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Mrs. Reppler screamed “Ware!” a
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Confrontation. It was my turn to sl
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was listening to her rant on about
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“Ollie,” I said, “I think may
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us.” “You think so?” Ollie go
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Just to see the sun again. A little
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your rod. “EXPIATION!” they all
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“You can’t go out. That way is
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was a half-used package of Rolaids.
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Mrs. Carmody was right, I thought.
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I had a terrible moment when I coul
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Now, as I sit in the Howard Johnson
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He didn’t cry. He dozed off again
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may have been the fact that the mis
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that, we took a chance on the bridg
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The other is hope.
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covering her mouth. Kenny Griffen s
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the last urinal. The tiger looked q
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Charles darted out the door again a
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The Monkey When Hal Shelbum saw it,
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“I don’t like it,” Petey said
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closed lid of the john and looked a
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Petey—it’s a good place to stay
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Johnny had been climbing the rungs
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getting splinters in his hands, not
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Terry was sitting near Dennis, watc
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face against Hal’s chest and wept
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Redhead,” Beulah would intone omi
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there been something else? An almos
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McCaffery, 19, and Sally Tremont, 2
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Bill had found the monkey the secon
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didn’t get home until almost dark
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you hear the crunching sound when t
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was wrong, and then the door opened
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alding brown fur was not that of tu
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His thoughts froze. The monkey. The
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Can’t we throw it out, Daddy? Ple
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with the end of the warm season. Ha
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unique toy—there was nothing stra
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ecause he had an itchy foot and had
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Exide battery. He was saving me for
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and two six-packs of Black Label ye
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He paused a moment, panting, and lo
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monkey whispered inside his head, i
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olled, flat-ting off clouds of thin
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The boat was old; the wood had shru
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close. A minute later he was standi
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ainbow trout, even one landlocked s
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God, that guy’s got eyes like an
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dead in a ditch with maggots in his
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“You think he’d mind if I scoff
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their intestines, feeding, dividing
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Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut “There goe
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agenda. They like that. But you men
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“It wasn’t one of these new spo
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north in the winter. The new one, I
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“She’d been stuck a few times,
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way is just 129.2.’ “I didn’t
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capacity, maximum heart-rate, and a
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speed on the gravel-and so you come
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He laughed, and this laugh was gent
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Rangely, missus,’ I said, ‘and
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shooting through those woods, spitt
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House at the Fryeburg Fair. “Abou
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etter than when I started it. It wa
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summer-fat; the second’ll come ba
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goddess in the sun, on one of those
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whatever the buggardly thing is tha
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those roads, Homer, maybe I am diff
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careful to his wife or his girl whe
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“I envy you, Homer,” I said, an
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The Jaunt “This is the last call
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out a little. “All right,” he s
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handing it to an elderly woman at t
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to a timid-looking man, persuading
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fifty-yard width of the barn. Carun
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stacked Pomona orange crates, looki
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object that we have that was actual
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“Does a bear shit in the woods?
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upside down. He turned it around an
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all the scant help the Great White
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frisky. It didn’t. The mouse only
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decided to hitch a ride over to Mos
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after they landed—” “Set up a
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“excursion.” Victor Carune rema
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“Don’t be frightened,” he sai
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it as famous as Kitty Hawk, North C
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was diagnosed as a massive heart at
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In addition, Summers suggested, the
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hurt?” “No, honey, of course it
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Longer than you think—” It said
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Englander, the guy who ran the plac
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“It’s from five to eight, next
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laugh. “You be there, ready to pl
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We turned up at the Sons of Erin Ha
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“I thought you were the caterers,
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was a hundred times worse. Scollay
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couldn’t help watching the way Ma
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His throat worked as if the words w
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ushed out. The door to the kitchen
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he really cared for you, and—”
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her, blubbering and pleading for hi
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I can’t go out no more. There’s
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keeps asking me to fill out forms.
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They are planning to flood the eart
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aft, which was anchored about fifty
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enjoying. The radio was predicting
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There had been that sound and the s
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“Okay!” he called back, pulling
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electronic cookies. Then it slipped
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neither was LaVerne trying to hide
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goes ole worry-wart Randy, pissing
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only, sending out one delicate ripp
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a sense of her form only, not in th
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Godfrey had pissed atomic Bisquick
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laughed in spite of himself—no ma
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enough to run onto the surface of t
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“What’s happening?” LaVerne h
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never came to him until too late. D
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With Deke dead, it seemed to go fas
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was a little too big to fit down th
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die, as Bon Scott, the lead singer
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She did. He did. They saw the black
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She murmured something, and he felt
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Some half an hour later, long after
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or something. Randy waited. This ti
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He whispered, “Do you love?” So
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with his time? And I guess it was t
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word processor. “You don’t supp
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, UNCLE RICHARD! JON.
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he knew it, too. And then there was
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The studio portrait with its unnatu
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eeping at him steadily. Flashing ac
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about the boy so palpably that ther
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hundred? Two hundred? It had never
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“Sorry,” he murmured. They had
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He typed: MY WIFE IS ADELINA MABEL
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always did. “Jon, it’s you, isn
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flames turned into a rainbow, and t
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“Now that I think back on it,”
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feelings ...’ “ ‘Only on one
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two hundred dollars. Darrel Baker,
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“The bettings began to get a litt
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ights, George continued: “As you
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and chased after him, leaving Baker
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came limpingly, reluctantly, across
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there, but his days of foraging in
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heathen gods. He drove it everywher
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flung a slaughtered chicken at him.
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ever stepped into our lives. But I
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strike him as being, deliciously fu
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Stevens’s mouth. “The resemblan
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looked like a gourd that had broken
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“But what’ll we do for water?
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Dronehead I called him, Shapiro tho
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drifted and choked by the creeping
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into it. “Alas, poor Yorick, I kn
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Shapiro blinked his eyes rapidly, a
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hollow cheeks and chin. His beard w
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y the suspension bridge of the corp
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Shapiro nodded. “Clan affiliation
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you’re up against? You want to ta
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concerned look never faltered. He s
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its feet, studied Rand’s thin fig
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them. “Pick me up!” the captain
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The Reaper’s Image “We moved it
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“Fascinating, isn’t it?” Carl
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like a man tottering over a bottoml
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Mr. Carlin chuckled a forlorn littl
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Spangler took his hand away careful
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And still he could not look away, a
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fitted with a steel skullcap, clamp
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do it. The flat, four-lane stretch
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I sat two stools down from her, and
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that she might have said rats. Rats
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suggesting bad weather on the way.
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“Here you are, handsome,” I whi
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them.” “I’ll hitch. You stand
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take, but it was a second or two to
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loom again. The headlights of his p
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furniture, rummage-sale stuff, mold
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I’m not so strange at that. You s
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hole in my life. Not the hole left
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“Jesus, lady!” he said. “Ther
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gusts. We ran south. Just across th
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passionate letters to her, telling
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couple of years before. I hardly no
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sideways and climbed the curb. Its
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“I am if you’re trying to pin t
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ever since I came, and sometimes I
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over the ice that had done the dama
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her again I couldn’t see her or a
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night, throwing up a huge wall of s
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the fallen power cable in the road.
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the world, the only thing that had
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different. It doesn’t seem the sa
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They waddle, and they are fat. “L
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laugh, call me crazy, and tell me t
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them, using writing samples I’d a
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son of a bitch led me a merry chase
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patient’s will. And I never had a
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said it could be done—but it woul
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miles from where it sank. They may
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I suppose I’m writing to put off
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Station 8. As I went up the stairwe
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ut somehow I think I’ll make it.
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instant. An hour later I snorted a
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oil. The huge slice of pound cake a
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couldn’t throw it. Because I knew
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February 11 (?) Rain the last two d
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Found a crab. Killed it and roasted
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Feb? Took the other leg at the knee
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you spare me a dime. Hahahaha They
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twenty years of his life in a one-r
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acres, and they explored them in Mc
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course. Considerably sobered by the
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the winter with drifts sometimes al
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that the bad, scary feelings which
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the Cresswell was blocked up by get
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were gone from Castle Rock by 1965.
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committal. In his own way, Uncle Ot
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minute it actually did seem closer.
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The truck with the scenic White Mou
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The door was open—he never locked
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I kept screaming but for a while I
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to know was: what had he done with
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Culver Street trembled silently on
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steamy, gasping heat, and smiled. P
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was just as true as could be, he ha
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Big Wheels: A Tale of The Laundry G
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murder of a young girl and her boyf
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for the dairy, hoping to catch Spik
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filling station on the left side of
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Rocky cackled. “No—my ole hogle
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Iron City. Silvery lines like railr
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a can. “Want a wide receiver?”
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more of this talk or you could be w
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luminous thought and found it. “W
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Stiffy.” Rocky had reached that s
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lights searching the empty road ahe
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wasn’t six anymore. Mom was going
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coming; nothing ever was. His mothe
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discovered that the Birches cemeter
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Cool as a moose, numbhead, see? Lay
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surrounded by the wild yellowish-wh
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Do you think that’s a good thing
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up and wanted what she sometimes ca
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last people began to talk, Mom said
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chrome handle, thinking, rememberin
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walked toward the entryway that sep
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Gramma, yellow and fat and wrinkled
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shape of a shoe, in his mind. So ar
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ack. This is better, really. If the
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thing safely behind him. He sat at
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hand and putting it back in bed wit
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forearm. He wasn’t going to go ne
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clinging to it. The river of wind f
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light. George screamed: “Lie down
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The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet T
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The editor said: “I had a story s
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would talk, but not be questioned.
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where dozens of better men have bee
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want to look over your shoulder to
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it). I’ve looked over your cuts,
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anything from a lefthanded monkey w
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was angry about the Fornit business
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five pages, typed, single-spaced. T
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that’s what I did. Unfortunately,
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to the Fomit ... and to me. The bol
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of a writer. He was absolutely conv
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The writer said, “That’s very i
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circuits are shoddily built into th
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power was the next-to-the-last stra
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ains to work over what it meant. Th
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first. It was getting hard to think
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“My headache was very bad. I coul
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was over the line. You bet. “I ha
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personal check. Thorpe’s mental p
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some time later that banks actually
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that bad at their end. It must have
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een dead low ebb. And she blessed m
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of flexible bullet, but any ballist
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topcoat was dirty. He would know I
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Fornits in our heads. “And there
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loudspeakers blasting heavy metal o
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pleasure ... and that was true. Sti
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“But the quality of the light tha
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“The clacks began to come a littl
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the apartment ... kept wanting to s
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sanitarium as a reward for finally
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“I didn’t know anything about J
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arrangements would have to be made.
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about electricity, because although
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“ ‘Then Reg threw him all the w
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usually warranted. But as the write
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The Reach “The Reach was wider in
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ut she did not cry. There was a tre
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“Stella,” he said again, “whe
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They were talking about Freddy Dins
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eyes barely marked by the crow’s-
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here on Goat.” “But it’s so s
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not before little Justin McCracken,
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soup.’ “I have seen good weathe
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great wad of bright red blood into
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town of Raccoon Head, but during th
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many years before that, before the
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“No, I’ve never felt I needed t
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or you’ll never get to the mainla
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spat bright red into the snow. Ten
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“Annabelle!” she cried. “Anna
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sang. They sang, and— —and Alde
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Notes Not everyone is interested in
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wife. That seemed cowardly to me. B
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“The Jaunt”—This was original
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checking out such literary pinnacle
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“The Reach”—Tabby’s younges
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