'Quitters, Inc.' by Stephen King

'Quitters, Inc.'

by Stephen King

Stephen King / BASTA, S. A.

Part One

Morrison was waiting for someone who was hung up in the air traffic jam over Kennedy International when he saw a familiar face at the end of the bar and walked down.

'Jimmy? Jimmy McCann?'

The Ledge by Stephen King

The Ledge
by Stephen King

Narrated by John Glover

https://esl-bits.eu/ESL.English.Listening.Short.Stories/The.Ledge/01/z.mp3

'Go on,' Cressner said again. 'Look in the bag.'

We were in his penthouse apartment, forty-three stories up. The carpet was deep-cut pile, burnt orange. In the middle, between the Basque sling chair where Cressner sat and the genuine leather couch where no one at all sat, there was a brown shopping bag.

The Man in the Black Suit by Stephen King

The Man in the Black Suit
by Stephen King

Stephen King / El hombre del traje negro

I am now a very old man and this is something which happened to me when I was very young—only nine years old. It was 1914, the summer after my brother Dan died in the west field and three years before America got into World War I. I’ve never told anyone about what happened at the fork in the stream that day, and I never will … at least not with my mouth. I’ve decided to write it down, though, in this book which I will leave on the table beside my bed. I can’t write long, because my hands shake so these days and I have next to no strength, but I don’t think it will take long.

Stephen King

130 Stephen King Short Stories 

Did you know that there are over 130 Stephen King short stories in existence? There’s no doubt that the man’s publishing career is impressive, but King was perhaps most prolific with his short stories: starting with "The Glass Floor" in 1967, he continued to write many short stories thereafter to pay the bills.

Stephen King / Cookie Jar

Illustration by Pat Perry

Cookie Jar

By Stephen King

1

There was a certain accord between them, right from the beginning. The boy thought the old man looked pretty good for ninety, and the old man thought the boy, whose name was Dale, looked pretty good for thirteen. 

The kid started by calling him Great-Grandpa, but Barrett was having none of that. “It makes me feel even older than I am. Call me Rhett. That’s what my father called me. I was a Rhett before there was a Rhett Butler—imagine that.” 

Dale asked him who Rhett Butler was.