2002 Short Stories (Study Guide): Everything's Eventual, Tortured Souls: Animae Damnatae, L. T.'s Theory of Pets, the Death of Jack Hamilton

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Everything's Eventual, Tortured Souls: Animae Damnatae, L. T.'s Theory of Pets, the Death of Jack Hamilton, That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French, 'hello, ' Said the Stick, Lambing Season, Falling Onto Mars, Riding the Rock, Old Macdonald Had a Farm, Slow Life, a Slice at a Time. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: "Everything's Eventual" is the seventh story in Stephen King's Everything's Eventual, a collection of short stories written by King and published in 2002. It first appeared in 2000 as part of the game Stephen King's F13. The story is told in first person perspective by a 19-year-old high-school dropout, Richard "Dinky" Earnshaw. Dinky fatuously explains that he's got a good job now. He used to be a clerk at the "Supr Savr," where he worked with morons and was relentlessly bullied by an aggressive dimwit named Skipper. But now Skipper's dead and Dinky's got a new job, where the main perks are that he gets his own house and his own car and virtually anything he asks for, including CDs that have not been released yet. He also gets a small wad of cash each week, provided he doesn't look for the people who drop it through his mail slot, and that he remembers to destroy or throw away any money left over at the end of the week. He gets rid of his excess change by dropping it down the gutter by his house, and he puts his bills in the garbage disposal, each week. As it turns out, Dinky has a certain gift. He has the ability to mentally influence people by drawing complicated designs or pictures, in a way that he does not completely understand. This is illustrated when he recalls that, as a child, he (semi-unknowingly) used this ability to drive to suicide a dog that tormented him on his way home from sch...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=22878