Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

by Stephen King

(that would be you, dear Constant Reader), and I don’t want to cheat myself, either. We’re in it together, after all. This is a date we’re on. We should have fun. We should dance.

folks who have gotten pretension and genius all confused,

Because if you want to write short stories, you have to do more than think about writing short stories. It is not like riding a bicycle but more like working out in the gym: your choice is use it or lose it.

You most of all, Constant Reader. Always you.

try to remember that grammar is for the world as well as for school.”

On some level I believed him completely, as we always believe, on some level, the worst thing our hearts can imagine.

“My mother made me a whore.” To which someone had added in very different penmanship: “If I supply the yarn will she make me one?”

The wind rushed around him, on its way to wherever.