This dollar baby is based on King's short story with the same title "Lucky Quarter" which first appeared in 30 June - 2 July 1995 issue of the newspaper "USA Weekend".

Stephen King's "Luckey Quarter", from his collection of short stories, "Everything's Eventual" " (11 minutes, 35 mm, drama/comedy). Screenplay adapted and directed by Robert David Cochrane." Darlene, a single mom and flat-broke chambermaid in a ramshackle Carson City, NV hotel receives a quarter for a tip. "A lousy quarter", she says. As she's soon to find out, both it and she are lousy... with luck...