Stephen King Story Creeped Me Out

[Gurubabaramalamaswami]

From Just After Sunset, titled "Graduation Afternoon".

Spoiler:

It's only a few pages and the jist of it is this gal is walking towards this house thinking about how her and her boyfriend are about to go their separate ways and she stops to look back at the New York skyline just in time to see a blinding flash. As she's starting to go blind she sees a mushroom cloud ascending over where New York used to be. The story ends with people standing there looking at it and not believing what they are seeing.

The thing that creeped me out was a sentence out of the liner notes in the back of the book: This could happen. And sooner or later it almost certainlywillhappen.

[Andrew Turner]

I started that book on a Friday night and was done the next afternoon--it's a great collection. "N" is my favorite, but "Graduation Day" was extremely well-executed. He's a superior writer. I even enjoyed the 1980s TZ-style "Willa."

"The Things They Left Behind" was probably the best-written; definite pathos, it will bring tears.

[Gurubabaramalamaswami]

Andrew Turner wrote:

I started that book on a Friday night and was done the next afternoon--it's a great collection. "N" is my favorite, but "Graduation Day" was extremely well-executed. He's a superior writer. I even enjoyed the 1980s TZ-style "Willa."

"The Things They Left Behind" was probably the best-written; definite pathos, it will bring tears.

This book was hit and miss with me. I loved "N" and its tribute to the Cthulhu Mythos. I also liked "Gingerbread Girl" because it had me holding my breath. "A Very Tight Place" was so over the top gross that I enjoyed it immensely. Especially while eating chocolate pudding (if only I'd known before hand).

The rest of the book was a little "meh" for me. Harder to get through than Everything's Eventual. Still, I'll keep it in my permanent collection.