Back in April my husband and I got back to our crappy hotel room in Denver after one of the various wedding activities we were in town for and we turned on the TV which was playing Stand by Me. It was then, after seven years of life together, that I leaned my husband had never seen Stand by Me. Anyway, The Body is the novella on which Stand by Me is based and it is a very strong “coming of age” piece of literature […]
When the night has come
This, perhaps the most quintessential “Stephen King story” ever written, walks that delicate, liminal space between childhood and adolescence. Here lies the age when perfection exists unrecognized. When you have the friends you’ll always carry with you, regardless of later circumstance. This is the age when childhood has reached its apogee: immediately before the confusion of puberty and the discovery of girls. It is a time for unchecked vulgarity, false bravado and posturing, and the constant interplay and co-mingling of imagination and experience, where the […]