FREE JUST AFTER SUNSET: STORIES PDF Stephen King | 539 pages | 22 Sep 2009 | SIMON & SCHUSTER | 9781416586654 | English | New York, NY, United States Just After Sunset by Stephen King As guest editor of the bestselling Best American Short StoriesKing spent over a year reading hundreds of stories. His renewed passion for the form is evident on every page of Just After Sunset. Who but Stephen King would turn a Port-O-San into a slimy birth canal, Just After Sunset: Stories a roadside honky-tonk into a place for endless love? A book salesman with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might take its rider on a captivating--and then terrifying--journey. Set on a remote key in Florida, " The Gingerbread Girl " is a riveting tale featuring a young woman as vulnerable--and resourceful--as Audrey Hepburn's character in Wait Until Dark. In "Ayana," a blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand. For King, the line between the living and the dead is often blurry, and the seams that hold our reality intact might tear apart at any moment. In one of the longer stories here, "N. Just After Sunset --call it dusk, call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as it Just After Sunset: Stories, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be Just After Sunset: Stories right out of you. It's the perfect time for Stephen King. Released November Publisher Scribner. This is Stephen's fifth short story collection. Paperback UK. Paperback Korea. The Gingerbread Girl. Harvey's Dream. Rest Just After Sunset: Stories. Stationary Bike. The Things They Left Behind. Graduation Afternoon. The Cat from Hell. A Very Tight Place. Links There are no links for this Collection. Privacy Policy. Table of Contents: Just after sunset : Goodreads helps you keep track of books Just After Sunset: Stories want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Just After Sunset: Stories Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details Just After Sunset: Stories other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Who but Stephen King would turn a Port- O-San into a slimy birth canal, or a roadside honky-tonk into a place for endless love? A book salesman with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might take its rider on a captivating—and then terrifying—journey. For King, the line between the living and the dead is often blurry, and the seams that hold our reality intact might tear apart at any moment. Get A Copy. HardcoverFirst Scribner hardcover editionpages. Published November 11th by Scribner Book Company first published More Details Original Title. United States of America. Other Editions 6. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Just After Sunsetplease sign up. Do you really not like cats? I have one that I adore. It is an indoor outdoor cat catches a lot of mice, great cat. Usually sleeps on my feet at nightbut your story Cat from Just After Sunset: Stories got him kicked off, for at least the night I finished it. Andy Easily the best story in the collection, whether you are a cat lover or not! Who died at the end of Harvey's Dream? I really didn't get it at all. Was it not a dream? Wes This answer contains spoilers… view spoiler [ I took it as his daughter died Jenna died. Just like in his dream, and that his oldest daughter Trisha is calling to inform her parents. I interpreted …more I took it as his daughter died Jenna died. I Just After Sunset: Stories the story as a sort of dark premonition. Hope this helps! See all 5 questions about Just After Sunset…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Just After Sunset. Willa: After a train derails leaving its passengers stranded, David Sanderson's wife wanders away from the station and he goes looking for her. On the surface, this was a tale of people who don't realize that they're ghosts dealing with their fate. Beneath, I think it's about how time slips away and the deeper the rut you get into, the harder it is to get out and do something new. His Kingship picked a good tale to start the collection with. Gingerbread Girl: After leaving her husband, Emily tak Willa: After a train derails leaving its passengers stranded, David Sanderson's wife wanders away from the station and he goes looking for her. Gingerbread Girl: After leaving her Just After Sunset: Stories, Emily takes up running on the beach. Her life is turning around until she runs afoul of killer! This was a pretty gripping tale about a woman running for her life from a serial killer. Serial killers have been done to death but King makes a good tale out of it. Harvey's Dream: A woman in a boring marriage is surprised when her husband wants to share a dream of his with her. This one felt like a well-written Twilight Zone episode to me. The characters felt very real to me. Rest Stop: A writer on the way home stops at a rest area to pee and interrupts a man beating his wife. This one was okay. It dealt a little with identity but was mostly a writer gathering up the courage to do something about a bad situation. Stationary Bike: An overweight commercial artist gets a stationary bike. Twilight Zone style weirdness ensues. Just After Sunset: Stories, I kind of liked this but it was a little long for what it was. Stationary bike takes guy into his drawing, guys working inside his body to keep his body healthy, it was a strange ride that ultimately went nowhere. See what I did there? Another Twilight Zone-ish story that should have been a lot shorter. Graduation Afternoon: A young woman knows she's attending one of her boyfriend's family's gatherings for the last time. It turns out being the last in more ways than one. N: A Just After Sunset: Stories commits suicide and his sister reads the file on his last patient, an OCD man named N. Holy shit! I enjoyed the hell out of Just After Sunset: Stories one. An OCD guy's rituals Just After Sunset: Stories a world devouring monster straight out of H. Lovecraft at bay? Loved it! The Cat From Hell: A pharmaceutical millionaire hires a hitman to kill Pretty brutal. You can tell this one was early King, especially compared to the writing style of Just After Sunset: Stories other stories. Another plane Just After Sunset: Stories tale. King's getting soft in Just After Sunset: Stories old age. Mute: After finding out his wife has been having an affair, a man picks up a deaf-mute hitchhiker and bares his soul. But was the man really deaf? This confessional tale was pretty good. King likes his shorts Twilight Zone-ish, doesn't he? Ayana: This was a tale about miracles. It was a little Hallmark-y for my taste. This was a revenge story that wasn't shitty despite the setting. Closing Thoughts: Not a bad short story collection. N and the Cat from Hell were my favorites. I wouldn't say any of the stories were duds but this wasn't my favorite King collection. Three out of five stars. View all 10 comments. This was kinda hit and miss for me. I'm not a true fan of short stories so maybe that's what it is. I mean dang. Harvey's Dream-short but chilling. Rest Stop-I know this one has been done before but I liked it. Then in the final chapter when King explains his reasons behind the story it made me like this one even more. Just After Sunset - Wikipedia This collection of short works is comprised of pieces that previously appeared in such publications as Just After Sunset: Stories New Yorker, Playboy, and McSweeney's, in a volume that includes such tales as ""The Gingerbread Girl"" and "N. Search Just After Sunset: Stories the book on E-ZBorrow. E-ZBorrow is the easiest and fastest Just After Sunset: Stories to get the book you want ebooks unavailable. Use ILLiad for articles and chapter scans. You can also use ILLiad to request chapter scans and articles. Phrase Searching You can use double quotes to search for a series of words in a particular order. 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