A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut.

After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. The novella is a form King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career, and many have been made into iconic films, If It Bleeds is a uniquely satisfying collection of longer short fiction by an incomparably gifted writer. So begins 'If It Bleeds', a stand-alone sequel to The Outsider featuring the incomparable Holly on her first solo case.ĭancing alongside are three more long stories - 'Mr Harrigan's Phone', 'The Life of Chuck' and 'Rat'.

But when she tunes in again, to the late-night report, she realizes there is something not quite right about the correspondent who was first on the scene. Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is working on the case of a missing dog - and on her own need to be more assertive - when she sees the footage on TV. And a bomb at Albert Macready Middle School is guaranteed to lead any bulletin. News people have a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads'. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds- each pulling readers into intriguing and frightening places.Ī collection of four uniquely wonderful long stories, including a stand-alone sequel to The Outsider. If it Bleeds is a collection of four new novellas - Mr.

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