Stephne King - Skeleton Crew (ebook)

This is what happened. On the night that the worst heat wave in northernNew Englandhistory finally broke-the night of July19-the entire westernMaineregion was lashed with the most vicious thunderstorms I have ever seen.

We lived onLongLake, and we saw the first of the storms beating its way across the water toward us just before dark. For an hour before, the air had been utterly still. The American flag that my father put up on our boathouse in 1936 lay limp against its pole.

Not even its hem fluttered. The heat was like a solid thing, and it seemed as deep as sullen quarry-water. That afternoon the three of us had gone swimming, but the water was no relief unless you went out deep. Neither Steffy nor I wanted to go deep becauseBillycouldn't. Billy is five.

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