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UNCOLLECTED

STORIES

STEPHEN KING

1

CONTENTS

1. Jhonathan and the Witches

3

2. People, Places and Things

5

3. In a Half-World of Terror

13

4.

The

Glass

Floor

28

5. Slade

36

6. The Blue Air Compressor

49

7. The Cat From Hell

57

8.

The

Crate

70

9. Squad D

97

10. The King Family & the Wicked Witch 104

11. The Night of the Tiger

111

12.

Before

the

Play

123

13. Man With a Belly

136

14.

Skybar

146

15.

The

Leprechaun

157

16. Keyholes

161

17.

For

the

Birds

163

18. The

Reploids

164

19. An Evening at God’s

176

2

JHONATHAN AND THE WITCHES

From First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors (1993).

King wrote this in 1956 at the age of 9 for his Aunt Gert who used to pay him a quarter per story.

Once upon a time there was a boy named Jhonathan. He was smart, handsome, and very brave. But Jhonathan was a cobbler’s son. One day his father said, "Jhonathan, you must go and seek your fortune. You are old enough."

Jhonathan, being a smart boy, knew he better ask the king for work.

So he set out. On the way, he met a rabbit who was a fairy in disguise.

The scared thing was being pursued by hunters and jumped into Jhonathan’s arms. When the hunters came up Jhonathan pointed excitedly and shouts, "That way, that way!"

After the hunters had gone, the rabbit turned into a fairy and said,

"You have helped me. I will give you three wishes. What are they?"

But Jhonathan could not think of anything, so the fairy agreed to give him when he needed them. So Jhonathan kept walking until he made the kingdom without incident. So he went to the king and asked for work.

But, as luck would have it, the king was in a very bad mood that day. So he vented his mood on Jhonathan.

"Yes there is something you can do. On yonder Mountain there are three witches. If you can kill them, I will give you 5,000 crowns. If you cannot do it I will have your head! You have 20 days." With this he dismissed Jhonathan.

"Now what am I to do?" thought Jhonathan. “Well I shall try.”

Then he remembered the three wishes granted him and set out for the mountain.

Now Jhonathan was at the mountain and was just going to wish for a knife to kill the witch, when he heard a voice in his ear, "The first witch cannot be pierced. The second witch cannot be pierced or smothered.

The third cannot be pierced, smothered and is invisible.”

With this knowledge Jhonathan looked about and saw no one. Then he remembered the fairy, and smiled. He then went in search of the first witch. At last he found her. She was in a cave near the foot of the mountain, and was a mean looking hag. He remembered the fairy words, and before the witch could do anything but give him an ugly look, he wished she should be smothered. And Lo! It was done. Now he went higher in search of the second witch. There was a second cave 3



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