The Stand

by Stephen King

rash. Only diaper rash didn’t make you preggers.

Ugh

Sarah had a Ward 8 and the two women rehashed the bridge game. In the meantime they managed to infect everyone in the Polliston cocktail bar, including two young men drinking beer nearby.

This whole bit reminded me of that scene in contagion and I found it rlly cool

She had to reach, and when she did, her dress pulled up and he could see beyond the brown tops of her stockings to the waffled white flesh of her upper thighs and he turned his eyes away, suddenly and aimlessly recalling what had happened to Noah’s third son when he looked at his father as the old man lay drunk and naked on his pallet.

Larry being weird & Stephen king loves this bible reference

How had is this going to screw up my plans? How many things am I going to have to change around?

He remembered drifting down to New Orleans in 1962, and meeting a demented young man who was handing out tracts urging America to leave Cuba alone. That man had been a certain Mr. Oswald, and he had taken some of Oswald’s tracts and he still had a couple, very old and crumpled, in one of his many pockets.

And then 11/22/63 was born

FREE ZONE MEETING * MUNZINGER AUDITORIUM * SEPTEMBER 4 * 8:00 P.M.

Highlighting this because I was reading this on September 4th