Yes,” she said, “and you saw us in the mirror the first time you looked, didn’t you? Perception isn’t everything, but perception and expectation together?” She winked, then leaned toward him. Her breast pressed against his upper arm as she kissed his cheek, and the sensation was lovely—surely the feel of living flesh. “Poor David. I’m sorry. But you were brave to come. I really didn’t think you would, that’s the truth.” Real After All: In "Stationary Bike," Richard suspects that his meeting with the "metabolism crew" of his body (a group of workmen who clear the fat from his blood) is All Just a Dream, but impulsively asks them to mail him one of the baseball caps they wear as proof of their being real. A few weeks later, that very cap arrives in the mail for him, confirming their existence. Harvey's Dream: A middle aged married couple discuss a dream the husband had which seems to be coming true. A young man stands at a Wyoming railway halt. His train has been derailed, his girlfriend has abandoned him for the bright lights of town; the dregs of the sunset recently "faded to bitter orange" over the Wind River mountains. He is about to discover — or at any rate to admit — that he's dead. Around him on the platform the other benighted travellers huddle together like the cast of a 1940s movie: everyone is far too familar with everyone else. Assembled here by circumstances beyond their control, they jeer at one another's uncertainties while the High Plains wolves howl in the darkness and the relief train brings no relief.

This was my second time reading this book, and I have to say, this book is a far more accomplished body of work than I originally gave it credit for. These stories cover a broad and at times profound range of topics and genres, each written in Stephen King's typically dark, humorous and intelligent style, which I have grown to love. Color noise reduction is a little easier. Color noise is visible as specs of “wrong” color in areas, or even color in colorless areas, like red dots in the dark sky. It’s easier to remove than luminance noise without negatively impacting the image, although going too far can still remove some low-level color details and saturation. For color noise, I recommend that you just bump the color noise slider up until your image looks good at 100%. The Gingerbread Girl is your basic survival thriller, a woman versus a maniac serial killer in the Florida Keys. It was on his lips to say, You’ve told me many things, and I think about all of them, but that was a lover’s reply, pretty and essentially meaningless. And because he knew what thing she meant, he looked again without saying anything. This time he really looked, and there was no one in the mirror. He was looking at the only empty booth in 26. He turned to Willa, flabbergasted… yet somehow not surprised. Editor's Note: If you get a great photo of any of the planets and would like to share it with Space.com's readers, send your photo(s), comments, and your name and location to [email protected] .She gave him an elbow. Not gently, either. “Stop shitting around and look at it, David. I don’t want to be here all night.” Wolf Frightener!” Willa cried. “I want to call you that in bed! ‘Oh, oh, Wolf Frightener, you so big! You so hairy!’?” As with most of King's short stories, this made me think deeply about how I would feel or react in a similar situation. The fact that his writing made me do this is a testament to his writing skills and ability to understand the human condition. Slap Yourself Awake: In The Gingerbread Girl, Emily bites down on her injured lip to keep herself from passing out when she should be trying to untie herself.

No, look again,” she said. The dimples were still there, but she was serious now—as serious as she could be in this party atmosphere, anyway. “And think about what I told you.” The Things They Left Behind: Mysterious objects appear in a 9/11 survivor's apartment, objects belonging to his deceased co-workers. As I briefly mentioned earlier, there is a Sunset Notes section at the end of the book, where King provides brief notes on each story, outlining how he got the idea and why he wrote the story. Though mildly interesting, it didn't really add much to what was overall a pretty mediocre collection of stories. It begins or ends when the Sun is about 6° above the horizon, and at the point of sunrise or sunset. During this time the light from the Sun is muted, and though it's called the golden hour, soft oranges and reds can become quite intense.

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Ayana - this was actually a short story that I think has the potential to become a novel, maybe? Very intriguing and I wanted to know more. That’s our cue to put on our diamond shoes and depart,” David said, and took her hand. He slid out of the booth, but she didn’t come. She didn’t let go of his hand, either, though, and he sat down again feeling a touch of panic. Thinking he now knew how a fish felt when it realized it couldn’t throw the hook, that old hook was in good and tight and Mr. Trout was bound for the bank, where he would flop his final flop. She was looking at him with those same killer blue eyes and deep dimples: Willa on the edge of a smile, his wife-to-be, who read novels in the morning and poetry at night and thought the TV news was… what did she call it? Ephemera. 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. They stood outside the Crowheart Springs railway station, holding hands in the moonlight like Hansel and Gretel outside the candy house. To David the long building’s green paint looked ashy gray in the moonlight, and although he knew WYOMING and “THE EQUALITY STATE” were printed in red, white, and blue, they could have been any colors at all. He noticed a sheet of paper, protected from the elements by plastic, stapled to one of the posts flanking the wide steps leading up to the double doors. Phil Palmer still leaned there. Whatever their condition, it turns out to be transitional. It's a basic assumption of supernatural fiction that the work of the dead is to move on. Forget life. Don't hang around. It's the message of Jacob's Ladder, or TM Wright's astonishing A Manhattan Ghost Story.

He looked at the mirrored wall on their left. There he saw a nice young couple from the East Coast, stranded in Wyoming. In her print dress she looked better than he did, but he guessed that was always going to be the case. He looked from the mirror-Willa to the real thing with his eyebrows raised. Palmer looked at him for several seconds, and before he laughed, David saw that Palmer more than believed him: Palmer had known all along. “I’ve heard plenty of reasons for not bringing someone what he asked for,” he said, “but I have to think that takes the prize.” The concepts around ISO, digital noise, and sensors can get very complex. We’ve got articles that dig into the technical details of noise and ISO invariance, if you’d like to learn more. Aperture For location-specific information, I like to use the app PhotoPills, which provides a wealth of useful night photography tools. I particularly like PhotoPill’s augmented reality view of the Milky Way – this view overlays a live preview of where the galaxy will appear at any point in time, right over your phone’s camera view. This preview makes it so easy to plan shots for future dates, particularly if you’re not familiar with concepts like azimuth and elevation.

A developmental concert of a folk musical by Nathan Skethway and Abi Vermeal premiered Off-Broadway at Ars Nova's 2019 ANT Fest. [4] The show reimagines the tale as a campfire story told by a cast of singer/musicians. The June 2019 cast featured Melanie Gettler, Brian Chandler Cook, Alyssa Lundberg, James Canal, and Molly Williams, as well as Skethway and Vermeal. The musical remains in development. Whatever your choice of lens, make sure you’re shooting as wide as you can in both focal length and aperture for Milky Way photography. This’ll increase the amount of time you can leave your shutter open before getting visible star trails, and it’s the best way to capture the faint galaxy against the night sky. And finally, in another hat-tip to his older, grosser self, A Very Tight Place. The "very tight place" referred to is a porta-potty. Combine "porta-potty" with "Stephen King" and a title like that, and you know it's going to go bad places. Don't read it while eating, but it's a pretty satisfying survival-and-revenge tale. This is also the month of Saturn’s eastern quadrature (on Nov. 23), where the globe casts its most prominent shadow on the rings from our Earthly viewpoint. The globe of Saturn too is seen lit slightly from the west, so the whole ball-and-rings system takes on its most three-dimensional appearance. On Nov. 20, take note of Saturn sitting to the upper right of the first quarter (half) moon. A busboy had come from somewhere and was helping the waitress mop up the mess. “Felt like I stepped down,” David heard her saying. Was that the kind of thing you heard in the afterlife?

Orifice Invasion: In The Cat from Hell the cat leaps into the mouth of a hitman. It then crawls further into the mouth until the hitman starts to choke. Once the hitman dies from that, the cat then crawls all the way inside.

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Didn’t you even wonder how a presentable female could be sitting here all by herself when the place is juiced and jumping?” she asked. Yes' she said, 'and you saw us in the mirror the first time didn't you? Perception isn't everything, but perception and expectations together?' Really enjoyed the dark tales of this collection, featuring some really graphic scenes that will stay with me and exploration of mental illness/grief in a fantastical way. This was a great entryway into King's short story realm. In this story, Emma retreats from events in her home life to her father's secluded beach house for some much-needed time to herself, what could ever go wrong? Grief-Induced Split: In "The Gingerbread Girl," Emily takes up running to deal with the grief of losing her daughter Amy to cot death. The unhealthy degree to which she pushes herself in this new hobby leads Emily and her husband Henry to agree on a trial separation, whereupon she moves to her father's summer home in Florida.