6/11/2023 0 Comments Mrs todd's shortcut stephen king![]() ![]() In October the sky over the lake is passing fair, with those big white clouds that move so slow I like how they seem so flat on the bottoms, and how they are a little gray there, like with a shadow of sundown foretold, and I can watch the sun sparkle on the water and not be bored for some space of minutes. Nights are cool, good for sleeping, and old joints like mine haven’t yet started to complain. Lots of the lake places still get used on the weekends, but the aggressive, boozy summer socializing is over by then and the hunters with their big guns and their expensive nonresident permits pinned to their orange caps haven’t started to come into town yet. It was October, which is a peaceful time in Castle Rock. This was just about two years ago and we were sitting on a bench in front of Bell’s Market, me with an orange soda-pop, Homer with a glass of mineral water. ![]() ![]() I had an idea that he disliked Worth Todd’s second wife every bit as much as he’d liked ’Phelia Todd, the first one. ![]() The Todd family had a big summer home on Castle Lake, and Homer had been their caretaker since time out of mind. Homer nodded his big, shaggy head to her but didn’t raise his own hand in return. Homer Buckland watched the little Jaguar go by and nodded. Written by Stephen King and narrated by Dana Ivey ![]()
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