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| 'How long will the magic stay?' | |
| No one- least of all Dr. Litchfield- came right out and told Ralph Roberts that his wife was going to die, but there came a time when Ralph understood without needing to be told. | |
| News item from westover (Me.) weekly Eterprise, August 19,1966: | |
| Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick. | |
| Sure you have. | |
| Louis Creed, who had lost his father at three and who had never known a grandfather, never expected to find a father as he entered his middle age, but that was exactly what happene | |
| 'ASK ME A RIDDLE,' Blaine invited. | |
| umber whunnnn yerrnnnn umber whunnnn fayunnnn These sounds: even in the haze. | |
| On a very hot day in August of 1994, my wife told me she was going down to the Derry Rite Aid to pick up a refill on her sinus medicine prescription- this is the stuff you can buy | |
| From the East Oregonian, June 25th, 1947 FIRE CONTROL OFFICER SPOTS 'FLYING SAUCERS' Kenneth Arnold Reports 9 Disc-Shaped Objects 'Shiny, Silvery, Moved Incredibly Fast' | |
| An old blue Ford pulled into the guarded parking lot that morning, looking like a small, tired dog after a hard run. | |
| He kept doing things without letting himself think about them. | |
| To the public eye, the spouses of well-known writers are all but invisible, and no one knew it better than Lisey Landon. | |
| After deciding he would get nothing of interest from the two old men who comprised the entire stadd of The Weekly Islander, the feature writer from the Boston Globe took a look at | |
| It was her third time with live ammunition...and her first time on the draw from the holster Roland had rigged for her. | |
| This is the story of a lover's triangle, I suppose you'd say- Arnie Cunningham, Leigh Cabot, and, of course, Christine. | |
| Poplar Street/3:45 P.M./July 15, 1996 Summer's here. | |
| The morning I got it on was nice; a nice May morning. | |
| The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. | |
| Jessie could hear the back door banging lightly, randomly, in the October breeze blowing around the house. | |
| Right here and now, as an old friend used to say, we are in the fluid present, where clear-sightedness never guarantees perfect vision. | |
| People's lives- their real lives, as opposed to their simple physical existences- begin at diffrent times. | |
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| Oh! Oh Jesus! Gross! | |
| Almost everyone thought the man and the boy were father and son. | |
| The Gunslinger came awake from a confused dream which seemed to consist of a single image: that of the Sailor in the Tarot deck from which the man in black had dealt (or purported | |
| 'Sally.' | |
| Curt Wilcox's boy came around the barracks a lot the year after his father died, I mean a lot, but nobody ever told him get out of the way or asked him whar in hail he was doing th | |
| This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain. | |
| From two thousand feet, where Claudette Sanders was taking a flying lesson, the town of Chester's Mill gleamed in the morning light like something freshly made and just set down. | |
| On September 15th, 1981, a boy named Jack Sawyer stood where the water and land come together, hands in the pockets of his jeans, looking out at the steady Atlantic. | |
| The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. | |
| 'Daddy, I'm tired,' the little girl in the red pants and the green blouse said fretfully. | |
| What did you ask, Andy Bissette? | |
| George was somewhere in the dark. | |
| Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine. | |
| The event that came to be known as The Pulse began at 3:03 p.m., eastern standard time, on the afternoon of October 1. | |
| The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years- if it ever did end- began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a | |
| Once in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons. | |
| She sits in the corner, trying to draw air out of a room which seemed to have plenty just a dew minutes ago and now seems to have none. | |
| By the time he graduated from college, John Smith had forgotten all about the bad fall he took on the ice that January day in 1953. | |
| 'Thinner,' the old gypsy man with the rotting nose whispers to William Halleck as Halleck and his wife, Heidi, come out of the courthouse. | |
| She was squinting at the thermometer in the white light coming through the window. | |
| For want of a nail the knigdom was lost- that's how the catechism goes when you boil it down. | |
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