A simple morality tale similar to Hawthorne’s with a younger hero. King’s homage to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown. The man tells him that his mother has died. He is approached by a man in a dark suit and wing tip shoes. Set in 1916, a young boy goes fishing at his favorite trout stream. It was originally published in a limited edition anthology of King stories entitled, Six Stories. This story was made into an episode of the TNT miniseries, Nightmares and Dreamscapes. It was inspired by an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents where a man in a wrecked car must attract the attention of is rescuers who think him dead. It is a clever bit of storytelling on King’s part and it’s a great story. This story is entirely interior dialogue the man has with himself about the fear of being cut open while alive and devising a means of letting those around him know he’s alive. When the pathologist examines a scar on the inside of his thigh, he finds a way to alert them. He can’t move and apparently those who are preparing to carve him up aren’t aware he’s alive and breathing. A wealthy stock broker regains consciousness on an autopsy room table.
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