Billy Summers

by Stephen King

but you can’t help how you feel. Feelings are like breathing, they come in and go out.

The Bible has a story to puncture every equivocation and denial. The Bible—New Testament as well as Old—does not forgive.

fiction wasn’t the truth, it was the way to the truth,

According to William Wordsworth, the best writing is about strong emotion recalled in tranquility.

Used to be a resort hotel there, but it burned flat many a moon ago.” He drops his voice. “It was reputed to be haunted.”

“And way across, on the other side, this is crazy, but I thought I saw that hotel you talked about. Then I blinked my eyes—the wind was so strong they were tearing up—and when I looked again, it was gone.”

Bucky doesn’t smile. “You’re not the only person who’s seen that. I’m not a superstitious man, but I wouldn’t go anywhere near where the Overlook Hotel used to stand. Bad stuff happened there.”