A Death
by:
Jon Gray (author)
Stephen King (author)
Jim Trusdale had a shack on the west side of his father’s gone-to-seed ranch, and that was where he was when Sheriff Barclay and half a dozen deputized townsmen found him, sitting in the one chair by the cold stove, wearing a dirty barn coat and reading an old issue of the Black Hills Pioneer by...
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Jim Trusdale had a shack on the west side of his father’s gone-to-seed ranch, and that was where he was when Sheriff Barclay and half a dozen deputized townsmen found him, sitting in the one chair by the cold stove, wearing a dirty barn coat and reading an old issue of the Black Hills Pioneer by lantern light. Looking at it, anyway.
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Format: ebook
Publish date: 2015-09-03
Publisher: newyorker.com
Pages no: 15
Edition language: English
Saw this freebie and swallowed it up immediately. This is just a short read so I went in. At the time, I was so sleepy I can barely think straight but it did not stop me from finishing this. I wanted to know who dunnit so I can sleep easy.This did not disappoint. Played with my emotions to the very ...
I enjoyed this quite a bit. It felt a bit like a Dark Tower side story (I really need to finish that). Or perhaps I just want to think that because otherwise I just read a cowboy story and I don't quite want to admit to that. This felt very Stephen King and was a very quick read (I guess that part d...
My usual issue with King, that he could have been one of our greatest writers had he taken a slightly different route. Here he writes a great little story that once again shows a hint of what could have been. I intend no offense to King fans.
A short mystery story by Stephen King setted in the wild west. Everyone in town think that Jim Trusdale murdered a little girl but he insist that he's innocent. This was a good short story, not one of my favourites but still it's decent. What I liked the most is how King plays with your mind through...