Insomnia

by Stephen King

“Makes me think of a bumper sticker I saw a few years back—SUPPORT MENTAL HEALTH OR I’LL KILL YOU.

‘Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else.’ ”

“It’s a long walk back to Eden, sweetheart.”

and read the day like a catalogue.

As a rule, politics wasn’t much of a conversational draw with the Old Crocks, who preferred a good bowel-cancer or stroke any day,