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Bag of BBones [030-011-4.9]
By: Stephen KING
Synopsis:
A chilling story of ghosts and horror told as oly the Master can
tellit: yes, Bag of bones, by Stephen King. After the tragic death of
his wife, a writer returns to his Maine summer home and there confronts
internal and external ghosts, as well as a very special child and her
mother.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data King, Stephen,
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AUTHOR'S NOTE
To an extent, this novel deals with the legal aspects of child custody
in the State of Maine. I asked for help in understanding this subject
from my friend Warren Silver, who is a fine attorney. Warren guided me
carefully, and along the way he also told me about a quaint old device
called the Stenomask, which I immediately appropriated for my own fell
purposes. If I've made procedural mistakes in the story which follows,
blame me, not my legal resource. Warren also asked me--rather
plaintively--if I could maybe put a "good" lawyer in my book. All I can
say is that I did my best in that regard.
Thanks to my son Owen for technical support in Woodstock, New York, and
to my friend (and fellow Rock Bottom Remainder) Ridley Pearson for
technical support in Ketchum, Idaho. Thanks to Pam Dorman for her
sympathetic and perceptive reading of the first draft. Thanks to Chuck
Verrill for a monumental editing job--your personal best, Chuck. Thanks
to Susan Mold w, Nan Graham, Jack Roman s, and Carolyn Reidy at Scribner
for care and feeding. And thanks to Tabby, who was there for me again
when things got hard. I love you, hon.
S.K.
This is for Naomi.
Still.
Yes, Bartleby, stay there behind your screen, thought I;
I shall persecute you no more; you are harmless and noiseless as any of
these old chairs; in short, I never feel so private as when I know you
are here.
"Bartleby,"
HERMAN MELVILLE
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again... As I stood there,
hushed and still, I could swear that the house was not an empty shell
but lived and breathed as it had lived before.
Rebecca,
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Mars is heaven.
RAY BRADBURY
On a very hot day in August of 1994, my wife told me she was going down
to the Derry Rite Aid to pick up a refill on her sinus medicine
prescription--this is stuff you can buy over the counter these days, I
believe. I'd finished my writing for the day and offered to pick it up
for her. She said thanks, but she wanted to get a piece of fish at the
supermarket next door anyway; two birds with one stone and all of that.
She blew a kiss at me off the palm of her hand and went out. The next
time I saw her, she was on TV. That's how you identify the dead here in
Derry--no walking down a subterranean corridor with green tiles on the
walls and long fluorescent bars overhead, no naked body rolling out of a
chilly drawer on casters; you just go into an office marked PRIVATE and
look at a TV screen and say yep or nope.
The Rite Aid and the Shopwell are less than a mile from our house, in a
little neighborhood strip mall which also supports a video store, a
used-book store named Spread It Around (they do a very brisk business in
my old paperbacks), a Radio Shack, and a Fast Foto. It's on Up-Mile
Hill, at the intersection of Witcham and Jackson.
She parked in front of Blockbuster Video, went into the drugstore, and
did business with Mr. Joe Wyzer, who was the druggist in those days;
he has since moved on to the Rite Aid in Bangor. At the checkout she
picked up one of those little chocolates with marshmallow inside, this
one in the shape of a mouse. I found it later, in her purse. I unwrapped
it and ate it myself, sitting at the kitchen table with the contents of
her red handbag spread out in front of me, and it was like taking
Communion. When it was gone except for the taste of chocolate on my
tongue and in my throat, I burst into tears. I sat there in the litter
of her Kleenex and makeup and keys and half-finished rolls of Certs and
cried with my hands over my eyes, the way a kid cries. The sinus inhaler
was in a Rite Aid bag. It had cost twelve dollars and eighteen cents.
There was something else in the bag, too--an item which had cost
twenty-two-fifty. I looked at this other item for a long time, seeing it
but not understanding it. I was surprised, maybe even stunned, but the
idea that Johanna Arlen Noonan might have been leading another life, one
I knew nothing about, never crossed my mind. Not then.
Jo left the register, walked out into the bright, hammering sun again,
swapping her regular glasses for her prescription sunglasses as she did,
and just as she stepped from beneath the drugstore's slight overhang (I
am imagining a little here, I suppose, crossing over into the country of
the novelist a little, but not by much; only by inches, and you can
trust me on that), there was that shrewish howl of locked tires on
pavement that means there's going to be either an accident or a very
close call. This time it happened--the sort of accident which happened
at that stupid X-shaped intersection at least once a week, it seemed. A
1989 Toyota was pulling out of the shopping-center parking lot and
turning left onto Jackson Street. Behind the wheel was Mrs. Esther
Easterling of Barrett's Orchards. She was accompanied by her friend Mrs.
Irene Deorsey, also of Barrett's Orchards, who had shopped the video
store without finding anything she wanted to rent. Too much violence,
Irene said. Both women were cigarette widows. Esther could hardly have
missed the orange Public Works dump truck coming down the hill; although
she denied this to the police, to the newspaper, and to me when I talked
to her some two months later, I think it likely that she just forgot to
look. As my own mother (another cigarette widow) used to say, "The two
most common ailments of the elderly are arthritis and forgetfulness.
They can't be held responsible for neither." Driving the Public Works
truck was William Fraker, of Old Cape. Mr. Fraker was thirty-eight years
old on the day of my wife's death, driving with his shirt off and
thinking how badly he wanted a cool shower and a cold beer, not
necessarily in that order. He and three other men had spent eight hours
putting down asphalt patch out on the Harris Avenue Extension near the
airport, a hot job on a hot day, and Bill Fraker said yeah, he might
have been going a little too fast--maybe forty in a thirty-mile-an-hour
zone. He was eager to get back to the garage, sign off on the truck, and
get behind the wheel of his own F-150, which had air conditioning. Also,
the dump truck's brakes, while good enough to pass inspection, were a
long way from tip-top condition.
Fraker hit them as soon as he saw the Toyota pull out in front of him
(he hit his horn, as well), but it was too late. He heard screaming
tires--his own, and Esther's as she belatedly realized her danger--and
saw her face for just a moment. "That was the worst part, somehow," he
told me as we sat on his porch, drinking beers--it was October by then,
and although the sun was warm on our faces, we were both wearing
sweaters. "You know how high up you sit in one of those dump trucks? " I
nodded. "Well, she was looking up to see me---craning up, you'd say--and
the sun was full in her face. I could see how old she was. I remember
thinking, "Holy shit, she's gonna break like glass if I can't
stop.' But old people are tough, more often than not. They can surprise
you. I mean, look at how it turned out, both those old biddies still
alive, and your wife..." He stopped then, bright red color dashing into
his cheeks, making him look like a boy who has been laughed at in the
schoolyard by girls who have noticed his fly is unzipped. It was
comical, but if I'd smiled, it only would have confused him. "Mr.
Noonan, I'm sorry. My mouth just sort of ran away with me."
"It's all right," I told him. "I'm over the worst of it, anyway." That
was a lie, but it put us back on track. "Anyway," he said, "we hit.
There was a loud bang, and a crumping sound when the driver's side of
the car caved in. Breaking glass, too. I was thrown against the wheel
hard enough so I couldn't draw a breath without it hurting for a week or
more, and I had a big bruise right here." He drew an arc on his chest
just below the collarbones. "I banged my head on the windshield hard
enough to crack the glass, but all I got up there was a little purple
knob.., no bleeding, not even a headache.
My wife says I've just got a naturally thick skull. I saw the woman
driving the Toyota, Mrs. Easterling, thrown across the console between
the front bucket seats. Then we were finally stopped, all tangled
together in the middle of the street, and I got out to see how bad they
were. I tell you, I expected to find them both dead." Neither of them
was dead, neither of them was even unconscious, although Mrs. Easterling
had three broken ribs and a dislocated hip. Mrs. Deorsey, who had been a
seat away from the impact, suffered a concussion when she rapped her
head on her window. That was all; she was "treated and released at Home
Hospital," as the Derry News always puts it in such cases. My wife, the
former Johanna Arlen of Malden, Massachusetts, saw it all from where she
stood outside the drugstore, with her purse slung over her shoulder and
her prescription bag in one hand. Like Bill Fraker, she must have
thought the occupants of the Toyota were either dead or seriously hurt.
The sound of the collision had been a hollow, authoritative bang which
rolled through the hot afternoon air like a bowling ball down an alley.
The sound of breaking glass edged it like jagged lace. The two vehicles
were tangled violently together in the middle of Jackson Street, the
dirty orange truck looming over the pale-blue import like a bullying
parent over a cowering child. Johanna began to sprint across the parking
lot toward the street. Others were doing the same all around her. One of
them, Miss Jill Dun-barry, had been window-shopping at Radio Shack when
the accident occurred. She said she thought she remembered running past
Johanna--at least she was pretty sure she remembered someone in yellow
slacks--but she couldn't be sure. By then, Mrs. Easterling was screaming
that she was hurt, they were both hurt, wouldn't somebody help her and
her friend Irene.
Halfway across the parking lot, near a little cluster of newspaper
dispensers, my wife fell down. Her purse-strap stayed over her shoulder,
but her prescription bag slipped from her hand, and the sinus inhaler
slid halfway out. The other item stayed put. No one noticed her lying
there by the newspaper dispensers; everyone was focused on the tangled
vehicles, the screaming women, the spreading puddle of water and
antifreeze from the Public Works truck's ruptured radiator. ("That's
gas!" the clerk from Fast Foto shouted to anyone who would listen.
"That's gas, watch out she don't blow, fellas!") I suppose one or two of
the would-be rescuers might have jumped right over her, perhaps thinking
she had fainted. To assume such a thing on a day when the temperature
was pushing ninety-five degrees would not have been unreasonable.
Roughly two dozen people from the shopping center clustered around the
accident; another four dozen or so came running over from Strawford
Park, where a baseball game had been going on. I imagine that all the
things you would expect to hear in such situations were said, many of
them more than once. Milling around. Someone reaching through the
misshapen hole which had been the driver's-side window to pat Esther's
.trembling old hand. People immediately giving way for Joe Wyzer; at
such moments anyone in a white coat automatically becomes the belle of
the ball. In the distance, the warble of an ambulance siren rising like
shaky air over an incinerator. All during this, lying unnoticed in the
parking lot, was my wife with her purse still over her shoulder (inside,
still wrapped in foil, her uneaten chocolate-marshmallow mouse) and her
white prescription bag near one outstretched hand. It was Joe Wyzer,
hurrying back to the pharmacy to get a compression bandage for Irene
Deorsey's
head, who spotted her. He recognized her even though she was lying
face-down. He recognized her by her red hair, white blouse, and yellow
slacks. He recognized her because he had waited on her not fifteen
minutes before. "Mrs. Noonan?" he asked, forgetting all about the
compression bandage for the dazed but apparently not too badly hurt Irene
Deorsey.
"Mrs. Noonan, are you all right?" Knowing already (or so I suspect;
perhaps I am wrong) that she was not.
He turned her over. It took both hands to do it, and even then he had to
work hard, kneeling and pushing and lifting there in the parking lot
with the heat baking down from above and then bouncing back up from the
asphalt. Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh
and in our minds, they put on weight. There were red marks on her face.
When I identified her I could see them clearly even on the video
monitor. I started to ask the assistant medical examiner what they were,
but then I knew. Late August, hot pavement, elementary, my dear Watson.
My wife died getting a sunburn. Wyzer got up, saw that the ambulance had
arrived, and ran toward it. He pushed his way through the crowd and
grabbed one of the attendants as he got out from behind the wheel.
"There's a woman over there," Wyzer said, pointing toward the parking
lot. "Guy, we've got two women right here, and a man as well," the
attendant said. He tried to pull away, but Wyzer held on. "Never mind
them right now," he said. "They're basically okay. The woman over there
isn't." The woman over there was dead, and I'm pretty sure Joe Wyzer
knew it... but he had his priorities straight. Give him that. And he was
convincing enough to get both paramedics moving away from the tangle of
truck and Toyota, in spite of Esther Easterling's cries of pain and the
rumbles of protest from the Greek chorus. When they got to my wife, one
of the paramedics was quick to confirm what Joe Wyzer had already
suspected. "Holy shit," the other one said. "What happened to her?"
"Heart, most likely," the first one said. "She got excited and it just
blew out on her." But it wasn't her heart. The autopsy revealed a brain
aneurysm which she might have been living with, all unknown, for as long
as five years. As she sprinted across the parking lot toward the
accident, that weak vessel in her cerebral cortex had blown like a tire,
drowning her control-centers in blood and killing her. Death had
probably not been instantaneous, the assistant medical examiner told me,
but it had still come swiftly enough.., and she wouldn't have suffered.
Just one big black nova, all sensation and thought gone even before she
hit the pavement.
"Can I help you in any way, Mr. Noonan?" the assistant ME asked, turning
me gently away from the still face and closed eyes on the video monitor.
"Do you have questions? I'll answer them if I can."
"Just one," I said.
I told him what she'd purchased in the drugstore just before she died.
Then I asked my question.
The days leading up to the funeral and the funeral itself are dreamlike
in my memory--the clearest memory I have is of eating Jo's chocolate
mouse and crying.., crying mostly, I think, because I knew how soon the
taste of it would be gone. I had one other crying fit a few days after
we buried her, and I will tell you about that one shortly. I was glad
for the arrival of Jo's family, and particularly for the arrival of her
oldest brother, Frank. It was Frank Arlen--fifty, red-cheeked, portly,
and with a head of lush dark hair--who organized the arrangements.., who
wound up actually dickering with the funeral director. "I can't believe
you did that," I said later, as we sat in a booth at Jack's Pub,
drinking beers. "He was trying to stick it to you, Mikey," he said. "I
hate guys like that." He reached into his back pocket, brought out a
handkerchief, and wiped absently at his cheeks with it. He hadn't broken
down--none of the Arlens broke down, at least not when I was with
them--but Frank had leaked steadily all day; he looked like a man
suffering from severe conjunctivitis. There had been six Arlen sibs in
all, Jo the youngest and the only girl. She had been the pet of her big
brothers. I suspect that if I'd had anything to do with her death, the
five of them would have torn me apart with their bare hands. As it was,
they formed a protective shield around me instead, and that was good. I
suppose I might have muddled through without them, but I don't know how.
I was thirty-six, remember. You don't expect to have to bury your wife
when you're thirty-six and she herself is two years younger. Death was
the last thing on our minds. "If a guy gets caught taking your stereo
out of your car, they call it theft and put him in jail," Frank said.
The Arlens had come from Massachusetts, and I could still hear Malden in
Frank's voice--caught was coowat, car was cah, call was caul. "If the
same guy is trying to sell a grieving husband a three-thousand-dollar
casket for forty-five hundred dollars, they call it business and ask him
to speak at the Rotary Club luncheon. Greedy asshole, I fed him his
lunch, didn't I?"
"Yes. You did."
"You okay, Mikey?"
"I'm okay."
"Sincerely okay?"
"How the fuck should I know?" I asked him, loud enough to turn some
heads in a nearby booth. And then: "She was pregnant." His face grew
very still. "What?" I struggled to keep my voice down.
"Pregnant. Six or seven weeks, according to the.., you know, the
autopsy. Did you know? Did she tell you?"
"No! Christ, no!" But there was a funny look on his face, as if she had
told him something. "I knew you were trying, of course.., she said you
had a low sperm count and it might take a little while, but the doctor
thought you guys'd probably.., sooner or later you'd probably..." He
trailed off, looking down at his hands. "They can tell that, huh? They
check for that?"
"They can tell.
As for checking, I don't know if they do it automatically or not. I
asked."
"Why?"
"She didn't just buy sinus medicine before she died. She also bought one
of those home pregnancy-testing kits."
"You had no idea?
No clue?" I shook my head. He reached across the table and squeezed my
shoulder. "She wanted to be sure, that's all. You know that, don't you?"
A refill on my sinus medicine and a piece of fish, she'd said. Looking
like always. A woman off to run a couple of errands. We had been trying
to have a kid for eight years, but she had looked just like always.
"Sure," I said, patting Frank's hand. "Sure, big guy. I know."
It was the Arlens--led by Frank who handled Johanna's sen doff. As the
writer of the family, I was assigned the obituary. My brother came up
from Virginia with my mom and my aunt and was allowed to tend the
guest-book at the viewings. My mother--almost completely ga-ga at the
age of sixty-six, although the doctors refused to call it
Alzheimer's--lived in Memphis with her sister, two years younger and
only slightly less wonky. They were in charge of cutting the cake and
the pies at the funeral reception. Everything else was arranged by the
Arlens, from the viewing hours to the components of the funeral
ceremony. Frank and Victor, the second-youngest brother, spoke brief
tributes. Jo's dad offered a prayer for his daughter's soul. And at the
end, Pete Breedlove, the boy who cut our grass in the summer and raked
our yard in the fall, brought everyone to tears by singing "Blessed
Assurance," which Frank said had been Jo's favorite hymn as a girl. How
Frank found Pete and persuaded him to sing at the funeral is something I
never found out. We got through it--the afternoon and evening viewings
on Tuesday, the funeral service on Wednesday morning, then the little
pray-over at Fairlawn Cemetery. What I remember most was thinking how
hot it was, how lost I felt without having Jo to talk to, and that I
wished I had bought a new pair of shoes. Jo would have pestered me to
death about the ones I was wearing, if she had been there. Later on I
talked to my brother, Sid, told him we had to do something about our
mother and Aunt Francine before the two of them disappeared completely
into the Twilight Zone. They were too young for a nursing home; what did
Sid advise? He advised something, but I'll be damned if I know what it
was. I agreed to it, I remember that, but not what it was. Later that
day, Siddy, our mom, and our aunt climbed back into Siddy's rental car
for the drive to Boston, where they would spend the night and then grab
the Southern Crescent the following day. My brother is happy enough to
chaperone the old folks, but he doesn't fly, even if the tickets are on
me. He claims there are no breakdown lanes in the sky if the engine
quits. Most of the Arlens left the next day. Once more it was dog-hot,
the sun glaring out of a white-haze sky and lying on everything like
melted brass. They stood in front of our house--which had become solely
my house' by then--with three taxis lined up at the curb behind them,
big galoots hugging one another amid the litter of tote-bags and saying
their goodbyes in those foggy Massachusetts accents. Frank stayed
another day. We picked a big bunch of flowers behind the house--not
those ghastly-smelling hothouse things whose aroma I always associate
with death and organ-music but real flowers, the kind Jo liked best--and
stuck them in a couple of coffee cans I found in the back pantry. We
went out to Fairlawn and put them on the new grave. Then we just sat
there for awhile under the beating sun. "She was always just the
sweetest thing in my life," Frank said at last in a strange, muffled
voice. "We took care of Jo when we were kids. Us guys. No one messed
with Jo, I'll tell you. Anyone tried, we'd feed em their lunch."
"She told me a lot of stories."
"Good ones?"
"Yeah, real good."
"I'm going to miss her so much."
"Me, too," I said. "Frank... listen... I know you were her favorite
brother. She never called you, maybe just to say that she missed a
period or was feeling whoopsy in the morning? You can tell me. I won't
be pissed."
"But she didn't. Honest to God. Was she whoopsy in the morning?"
"Not that I saw." And that was just it. I hadn't seen anything. Of
course I'd been writing, and when I write I pretty much trance out. But
she knew where I went in those trances. She could have found me and
shaken me fully awake. Why hadn't she? Why would she hide good news? Not
wanting to tell me until she was sure was plausible.., but it somehow
wasn't Jo. "Was it a boy or a girl?" he asked. "A girl."
We'd had names picked out and waiting for most of our marriage. A boy
would have been Andrew. Our daughter would have been Kia. Kia Jane
Noonan.
Frank, divorced six years and on his own, had been staying with me. On
our way back to the house he said, "I worry about you, Mikey. You
haven't got much family to fall back on at a time like this, and what
you do have is far away."
"I'll be all right," I said. He nodded.
"That's what we say, anyway, isn't it?"
"We?"
"Guys. Tll be all right.'
And if we're not, we try to make sure no one knows it." He looked at me,
eyes still leaking, handkerchief in one big sunburned hand. "If you're
not all right, Mikey, and you don't want to call your brother--I saw the
way you looked at him--let me be your brother. For Jo's sake if not your
own."
"Okay," I said, respecting and appreciating the offer, also knowing I
would do no such thing. I don't call people for help. It's not because
of the way I was raised, at least I don't think so; it's the way I was
made. Johanna once said that if I was drowning at Dark Score Lake, where
we have a summer home, I would die silently fifty feet out from the
public beach rather than yell for help. It's not a question of love or
affection. I can give those and I can take them. I feel pain like anyone
else. I need to touch and be touched. But if someone asks me, "Are you
all right?" I can't answer no. I can't say help me. A couple of hours
later Frank left for the southern end of the state. When he opened the
car door, I was touched to see that the taped book he was listening to
was one of mine. He hugged me, then surprised me with a kiss on the
mouth, a good hard smack. "If you need to talk, call," he said. "And if
you need to be with someone, just come." I nodded. "And be careful."
That startled me. The combination of heat and grief had made me feel as
if I had been living in a dream for the last few days, but that got
through. "Careful of what?"
"I don't know," he said. "I don't know, Mikey." Then he got into his
car--he was so big and it was so little that he looked as if he were
wearing it--and drove away. The sun was going down by then. Do you know
how the sun looks at the end of a hot day in August, all orange and
somehow squashed, as if an invisible hand were pushing down on the top
of it and at any moment it might just pop like an overfilled mosquito
and splatter all over the horizon? It was like that. In the east, where
it was already dark, thunder was rumbling. But there was no rain that
night, only a dark that came down as thick and stifling as a blanket.
All the same, I slipped in front of the word processor and wrote for an
hour or so. It went pretty well, as I remember. And you know, even when
it doesn't, it passes the time.
My second crying fit came three or four days after the funeral. That
sense of being in a dream persisted--I walked, I talked, I answered the
phone, I worked on my book, which had been about eighty percent
complete when Jo died--but all the time there was this clear sense of
disconnection, a feeling that everything was going on at a distance from
the real me, that I was more or less phoning it in.
Denise Breedlove, Pete's mother, called and asked if I wouldn't like her
to bring a couple of her friends over one day the following week and
give the big old Edwardian pile I now lived in alone--rolling around in
it like the last pea in a restaurant-sized can--a good stem-to-stern
cleaning. They would do it, she said, for a hundred dollars split even
among the three of them, and mostly because it wasn't good for me to go
on without it. There had to be a scrubbing after a death, she said, even
if the death didn't happen in the house itself.
I told her it was a fine idea, but I would pay her and the women she
brought a hundred dollars each for six hours' work. At the end of the
six hours, I wanted the job done. And if it wasn't, I told her, it would
be done, anyway.
"Mr. Noonan, that's far too much," she said.
"Maybe and maybe not, but it's what I'm paying," I said. "Will you do
it?"
She said she would, of course she would.
Perhaps predictably, I found myself going through the house on the
evening before they came, doing a pre-cleaning inspection. I guess I
didn't want the women (two of whom would be complete strangers to me)
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