| James Cole made his dollar baby, The Last Rung on the Ladder, back in 1987. It's based on the story in Night Shift with the same name. It's about a brother and sister who in their youth used to play a game. The game was to climb high up in the barn on an old ladder, then fearlessly throw themselves out into the air… just to land way, way below in the haystack. On one occasion the ladder brakes and the sister is stuck way up in the air, hanging onto the last rung on the ladder. The brother then moves enough hay to save her from breaking every bone in her body, or even worse getting killed. Years later when they are older the sister jumps from a building and kills herself.
Before she does, she writes her brother a letter which contains a cry for help. This letter doesn't reach the brother in time to save her though, since he moved around a lot and always forgot to send her his new address. Her letter is therefore forwarded to a different address after address after address… It's a very emotional story. It proves that King can write other types of stories as well as he writes horror. |
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