Stephen King - Straight Up Midnight

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Introduction

STRAIGHT UP MIDNIGHT:

An Introductory Note

Well, look at this - we're all here. We made it back again. I hope you're half as happy to be here as I am just

saying that reminds me of a story, and since telling stories is what I do for a living (and to keep myself sane), I'll

pass this one along.

Earlier this year - I'm writing this in late July of 1989 - I was crashed out in front of the TV, watching the Boston

Red Sox play the Milwaukee Brewers. Robin Yount of the Brewers stepped to the plate, and the Boston

commentators began marvelling at the fact that Yount was still in his early thirties. 'Sometimes it seems that

Robin helped Abner Doubleday lay down the first set of foul lines,' Ned Martin said as Yount stepped into the

box to face Roger Clemens.

'Yep,' Joe Castiglione agreed. 'He came to the Brewers right out of high school, I think - he's been playing for

them since 1974.'

I sat up so fast I nearly spilled a can of Pepsi-Cola all over myself. Wait a minute! I was thinking. Wait just a

goddam minute! I published my first book in 1974! That wasn't so long ago! What's this shit about helping Abner

Doubleday Put down the first set of foul lines?

Then it occurred to me that the perception of how time passes - a subject which comes up again and again in the

stories which follow - is a highly individual thing. It's true that the publication of Carrie in the spring of 1974 (it

was published, in fact, just two days before the baseball season began and a teenager named Robin Yount played

his first game for the Milwaukee Brewers) doesn't seem like a long time ago to me subjectively - just a quick

glance back over the shoulder, in fact - but there are other ways to count the years, and some of them suggest that

fifteen years can be a long time, indeed.

In 1974 Gerald Ford was President and the Shah was still running the show in Iran. John Lennon was alive, and

so was Elvis Presley. Donny Osmond was singing with his brothers and sisters in a high, piping voice. Home

video cassette recorders had been invented but could be purchased in only a few test markets. Insiders predicted

that when they became widely available, Sony's Beta-format machines would quickly stomp the rival format,

known as VHS, into the ground. The idea that people might soon be renting popular movies as they had once

rented popular novels at lending libraries was still over the horizon. Gasoline prices had risen to unthinkable

highs: forty-eight cents a gallon for regular, fifty-five cents for unleaded.

The first white hairs had yet to make their appearance on my head and in my beard. My daughter, now a college

sophomore, was four. My oldest son, who is now taller than I am, plays the blues harp, and sports luxuriant

shoulder-length Sammy Hagar locks, had just been promoted to training pants. And my youngest son, who now

pitches and plays first base for a championship Little League team, would not be born for another three years.

Time has this funny, plastic quality, and everything that goes around comes around. When you get on the bus,

you think it won't be taking you far - across town, maybe, no further than that - and all at once, holy shit! You're

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