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'I suspect everyone but me and thee,' he said, and then the smile faded a little. 'And sometimes I wonder about thee.'

Strawberry Spring is a very early short story by Stephen King that had a huge impact on me when I was younger. It's about a college campus living in fear of a serial killer. What stuck with me the most was the tense atmosphere. The tone is hushed, but with a mix of panic and perverse excitement just under the surface. The quiet unease is what really draws me in every time. Please read it at the link above!

Edit: also, it's a really quick read. I think in the print edition it's only like 9 pages

#stephen king #strawberry spring #so apparently it was originally published in 1968 in a magazine and heavily revised for its release in the short story collection #night shift #some years later #i dont have my copy of night shift so i cant verify that this is the original #but i THINK it is

Short Story Tournament

Round 2

Strawberry Spring

A Scandal in Bohemia

Voting ended onAug 1, 2023

STRAWBERRY SPRING by Stephen King (1978) (link) - tw: murder

What happened at New Sharon Teachers’ College that particular strawberry spring. . . there may be a cycle for that, too, but if anyone has figured it out, they’ve never said.

A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA by Arthur Conan Doyle (1891) (link)

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler.

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One of the short stories by SK that most affected me was “Strawberry Spring”. The ending caught me by surprise and for some reason, the story stays with me. Am I alone? I never see anybody mention the tale.

#strawberry spring #stephen king #night shift

At New Sharon, the strawberry spring began on 16 March 1968. The coldest winter in twenty years broke on that day. It rained and you could smell the sea twenty miles west of the beaches. The snow, which had been thirty-five inches deep in places, began to melt and the campus walks ran with slush...when the night came the fog came with it, moving silent and white along the narrow college avenues and thoroughfares. The pines on the wall poked through it like counting fingers and it drifted, slow as cigarette smoke, under the little bridge down by the Civil War cannons. It made things seem out of joint, strange, magical. The unwary traveler would step out of the juke-thumping, brightly lit confusion of [the bar], expecting the hard clear starriness of winter to clutch him...and instead he would suddenly find himself in a silent, muffled world of white drifting fog, the only sound his own footsteps and the soft drip of water from the ancient gutters.

I gave up on Stephen King a long time ago, but I’ll revisit him every now and again, and, as an older reader, I’m often pleasantly surprised at how genuinely good his writing could be, monsters or no monsters.

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Short Story Tournament

Round 1

Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death

Strawberry Spring

Voting ended onJul 9, 2023

LOVE IS THE PLAN THE PLAN IS DEATH by Alice B. Sheldon, as James Tiptree Jr (1973) (link) - tw: cannibalism

Isn’t it strange, my loveling? This sweetness that floods our bodies when we yield to the Plan. Great is the Plan! Fear it, fight it—but hold the sweetness yet.

STRAWBERRY SPRING by Stephen King (1978) (link) - tw: murder

What happened at New Sharon Teachers’ College that particular strawberry spring. . . there may be a cycle for that, too, but if anyone has figured it out, they’ve never said.

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Seen it coming. 😎

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Title-Strawberry Spring

Year of Publication-1968

Format-Short Story collected in Night Shift

Summary-An unnamed man looks back on his senior year of college. At the small campus of New Sharon where over the course of a false spring several female students were brutally murdered. That was years ago, but now the man can't remember where he was last night and another girl is dead.

Pros-Over the course of only 9 pages the creep factor is strong. I've never heard of a strawberry spring, but it makes the story very atmospheric. The ending is a kick in the face.

Cons-Not a fan of nameless narrators.

Overall Rating-5/5

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Round 5 of the Garrett Hedlund Tournament

Choose a favorite character

Henry Denton

Ethan Campbell

I don't want to choose, I just want to see the results

Voting ended onJun 12, 2024

Let me know who you chose by reblogging and writing your choice in the tags, or comment with your choice. Or if anything, you can keep it a mystery as you wait a week to see the results.

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#garrett hedlund #Henry Denton #strawberry spring #Ethan Campbell #the tutor #there is going to be 19 main rounds and I'll be releasing the polls bit by bit #p.s. if it is unavailable to watch in your area you can use a vpn or pirate but please be careful #also if you know where else to watch/purchase the movie in your area (legally if possible) please let me know so I can update this #Youtube #round five of the garrett hedlund tournament