5/23/2023 0 Comments Skeleton crew short stories![]() ![]() A horror that resonates deeply with my personal form of agoraphobia. The Germans nearby are looking at me funny because my face is so guffawed as I keep reading this story of unimaginable horror. So this is what I’m reading as I’m rocketing through the air at a height of six miles up. I’ll spare you the extremely gruesome ending to this story, but I urge you to seek it out if you’ve never read it. They die almost immediately from the shock of coming back. ![]() ![]() Upon arrival, their hair turns white from experiencing the infinite, inter-dimensional terror of jaunting awake. All alone with their thoughts in the crushing nothingness, they inevitably go insane. Physical bodies arrive in a mere instant, while a human’s consciousness is trapped for billions of years in a void of endless white. Over the course of the story, we discover that anyone sent through the portal awake suffers through an eternity of waking nothingness. ![]() The first human to jaunt while awake is a test subject - a death-row inmate - who suffers a massive heart attack after emerging, staying alive long enough only to say, “It’s eternity in there…” An eccentric scientist invents teleportation by accident, soon noticing that mice only survive a jaunt if sent through the port unconscious. The father in the story spares his nuclear family the gruesome details of the jaunt-effect, but King fills in the blanks for the reader. ![]()
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