Gwendy's Button Box (The Button Box #1)

by Stephen King

They eventually made up their fight in Gwendy’s bedroom,

Their shoddily written and contrived fight?

The button box stays hidden in the back of the closet. Gwendy still thinks about it—boy, does she—but she wants nothing to do with it anymore. Not the chocolate treats, not the silver coins, and most of all, not the goddamn buttons. Most days, she hates the box and everything it reminds her of, and she fantasizes about getting rid of it. Crushing it with a sledgehammer or wrapping it up in a blanket and driving it out to the dump.

Oh come on. This is crazy contrived too. They couldn't build a little extra track to more coherently connect Olive's suicide to the box?

When it’s his turn to order, the spark jumps and neither of them can manage a complete sentence.

This writing is so shoddy. Hasty anyway. They couldn't spare the time to actually show this moment?