Laurie

A king gift for ya'll

“Stephen has written a new short story, “Laurie,” which is available now as a free download exclusively on stephenking.com. You may download and/or print the story for yourself or to pass along to others, but may not charge any money to share it.”

I have lost a lot of faith in King and his ability to horrify me. The movies do a good job (IT), but his books seem to wane from the midway point and I often close the book--and curse. Can one outgrow an author that gave many hours of joy? An author whom held the attention of this fella from the age of 10?

For those who still rock out on King and (Koontz)

Here’s the link to King's present:
https://stephenking.com/other/stephenking-laurie.pdf

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