![]() Would choosing to live our life again be selfish? Would it be immoral? After all, you would be choosing to hurt those people. ![]() All those people you hurt? You’ll hurt them again. Bill briefly contemplates some of the wrongs he could right, some of the mistakes he would undo. Or, he can wink out of existence forever. He finds himself in an “inbetween” and is told that he has the option to live his life over again, exactly as before. In the short story Afterlife, a man named Bill dies. This makes for wildly entertaining stories.īut what I love most is when “imagine if” becomes “what would I do if”? Imagine if you owned a Kindle that could access literature from alternate realities. Imagine if you could kill people by writing their obituaries. Imagine if someone paid you $200,000 to punch a child and record it on video. Imagine if you discovered a tiny island where occasionally you’d find names written in the sand… and those people always died within a month. I read once that Stephen King likes to take ordinary people and put them in extraordinary “imagine if” scenarios. Even better? I started the week before Halloween (my favourite holiday, it should surprise no one to learn). So yeah, I dropped everything I was doing to re-read these short stories. ![]() I mean, I flew all the way to Bangor, Maine just to go on the official Stephen King tour. Constant Reader, I am a massive Stephen King fan. To my surprise, Stephen King’s The Bazaar of Bad Dreams made the list. Recently I was perusing a curated list of the top books on death. ![]()
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