After The People Lights Have Gone Off - Plot & Excerpts
His prom date, she’s going to have to look inside to see the real him.In quick succession, then, I flamed out of my year-to-year contract at our branch of the state university, was back to stocking tools and air conditioners at night.And this. Talking about books.More and more, I was thinking it was the only good thing I had in me. My only real gift. And that, if I didn’t share it, then the next time one of Jeremy’s bills came due, my wife’s dad wasn’t going to come through with a check, or the surgeon that day was going to have had one too many drinks at lunch.I’d put up a flyer at the library, the Laundromat, the carwash, both coffee shops.There were seven of us, most Wednesdays.This week we were reading Stephen King again. Marcy from the bank had recommended him, because, she said, she was too scared to read him alone. So we went with her into those dark places. Well, I’d already been, but I toured them through—the life, the times, the legend—and then passed a photocopied story out for next week.
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