Read Stephen King’s Western Short Story - A DEATH
For those of you who are fans of Stephen King, you will be happy to learn that he’s written a new short story for your reading enjoyment. It's a western thriller called A Death. The story is set in the Black Hills of Dakota in 1889. It tells the story of a murder of a young girl, and the man, Jim Trusdale, who is suspected of killing her. Here's a brief summary of the story:
“The story hinges on the question of guilt. Trusdale repeatedly proclaims his innocence. Most of the town’s citizens are convinced that he’s guilty, yet the sheriff believes that an innocent man may be going to his death.”
It’s another fantastic story from the legendary author, and you can read the full thing right now at The New Yorker. I've included the first couple of paragraphs to get you started:
Jim Trusdale had a shack on the west side of his father’s gone-to-seed ranch, and that was where he was when Sheriff Barclay and half a dozen deputized townsmen found him, sitting in the one chair by the cold stove, wearing a dirty barn coat and reading an old issue of the Black Hills Pioneer by lantern light. Looking at it, anyway.
Sheriff Barclay stood in the doorway, almost filling it up. He was holding his own lantern. “Come out of there, Jim, and do it with your hands up. I ain’t drawn my pistol and don’t want to.”
This is really a great read, and I hope you decide to finish the story here.