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[the shining] I think a lot about the incident that led to Jack quitting drinking
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Jack and Al, alcoholics, out at night, driving
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when they see something in the road, but too late to avoid it
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and feel the car run it over, viscerally
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pull over to the side of the road
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and in the middle of the road is
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a broken, battered child-size bicycle
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and no child
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and they keep going in circles like
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"there's no body so there's no kid"
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"then WHY WAS IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD"
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looking around, finding no sign of anyone
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Jack swore he saw a kid
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but there's no kid
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what happened?
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never clarified
BF
terrifying
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but whenever he really wants to drink, he just sees that small bicycle with the wheel bent out of alignment, broken spokes pointed skyward
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quits cold turkey
bluecanary
god that's very powerful and very Steven King
EsperBot
That's very strong but also part of my brain is like 'it wasn't properly secured to a car and it fell off'