Stephen King - Skybar

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Skybar

by Brian Hartz and Stephen King

The following story was written from a contest with Doubleday books to promote the 1982 "Do it Yourself

Bestseller" book edited by Tom Silberkleit and Jerry Biederman.

There were many authors featured in the book, including Belva Plain and Isaac Asimov. Each writer provided

the beginning and ending to a story.

It was up to the reader to provide the middle, hence the name "Do It Yourself Bestseller."

As part of the promotion, Doubleday books held a national contest to see who could write the best middle portion.

Each winner was chosen by the individual writer - in this case, Stephen King. Brian Hartz was 18 at the time it

was written.

This story contains strong language and material that may be unsuitable for younger readers.

There were twelve of us when we went in that night, but only two of us came out - my friend Kirby and me. And

Kirby was insane. All of the things I'm going to tell you about happened twelve years ago. I was eleven then, in

the sixth grade. Kirby was ten and in the fifth. In those days, before gas shot up to $1.40 a gallon or more (as I

recall the best deal in town was at Dewey's Sunoco, where you could get hi-test for 31.9 cents, plus double S&H

Green stamps), Skybar Amusement Park was still a growing concern; its great double Ferris wheel turned

endlessly against a summer sky, and you could hear the great, grinding mechanical laugh of the fun-house clown

even at my house, five miles inland, when the wind was right

Yeah, Skybar was the place to go, all right - you could blast away with the .22 of your choice at Pop Dupree's

Dead Eye Shootin' Gallery, you could ride the Whip until you puked, wander into the Mirror Labyrinth, or look

at the Adults Only freak tent and wonder what was in there...you especially wondered when the people came out,

white-faced, some of the women crying, or hysterical. Brant Callahan said it was all just a fake, whatever it was,

but sometimes I saw the doubt even in Brant's tough gray eyes.

Then, of course, the murders started, and eventually Skybar was shut down. The double Ferris stood frozen

against the sky, and the only sound the mechanical clown's mouth produced was the lunatic hooting of the sea

breeze. We went in, the twelve of us, and. . .but I'm getting ahead of myself. It began just after school let out that

June; it began when Randy Stayner, a seventh-grader from the junior high school, was thrown from the highest

point of the SkyCoaster. I was there that day - Kirby was with me, in fact - and we both heard his scream as he

came down.

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