You've Been Here Before
Sure you have. Sure, I never forget a face.
Come on over here, let me shake your hand! Tell you somethin: I recognized you by the way you walk even before I saw your face good. You couldn't have picked a better day to come back to Castle Rock. Ain't she a corker?
It's Stephen King I mostly want to talk about-can you sit a spell with me?
Over here on the steps of the band stand will be fine, the suns warm and from here, sprang in the middle of town common you can see just about all of downtown. You want to mind the splinters, that's all....
Oh that Stephen King he's somethin ain't he, runs around telling so many spooky tales that I don't quite know where to begin.
Well, I guess 1974 is as gooda place as any. Yup, that was the year he started tellin the story bout that young girl Carietta White, better known as Carrie round these parts. Now, you see, Carrie was a little different from you and me, she could make things move without touchin them. It started with small things, marbles would start dancin, or a candle would fall over,Ha! she could even lock a door. Now as you could imagine, Carrie didn't quite fit in so the kids at school we mean to her, they played all sorts of cruel jokes on her. They didn't even leave her alone at her senior prom, and now Carrie was gettin mad, so she made a lighted candle fall...and she locked doors. Now I can't tell it like Stephen, so next time you see him ask him to tell you.
You see, Stephen found that people liked his story, so he started makin up new ones. He's told all kinds since then, the was the one about the caretaker at the overlook hotel.....and that one about the mean dog....what's his name....oh yeah, Cujo. Yup, you see if you encourage him he just keeps right on makin them up, why I bet he's told more than thirty or so already. The latest one he's been running around telling is called Bag of Bones, or somethin like that, suppose to be a story about grief and a lost love's enduring bonds, and of an innocent child caught in the middle of natural and supernatural forces. Your going to have to ask him about that one too when you see him, nothin he likes better then to find someone who hasn't heard his stories yet.
Well I may not be able to tell you Stephen's stories but I can tell you quit a bit about the man behind the stories if you can sit with me a spell.
You've been here before, but things are about to change.
I know it.
I feel it
There's a storm on the way....