' Everything's Eventual' – read by Justin Long.

' L.T.'s Theory of Pets' is the only story not included in any of the book-on-cd collections, but rather as a standalone product.Įverything's Eventual: Five Dark Tales contains these stories: The unabridged digital audiobook edition includes all fourteen stories, but the physical book-on-cd versions of the stories are spread out over several products. I also added an explanatory note before or after each story, depending on which seemed the more fitting position. And it actually created a very nice balance between the literary stories and the all-out screamers. The order in which they came out of the deck became the order of the stories, based on their position in the list my publisher sent me. What I did was take all the spades out of a deck of cards plus a joker. In the introduction to the book, King describes the unusual method he used to sort the stories: 'The Little Sisters of Eluria' is part of The Dark Tower series. ' That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French' October/November 1997 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ' All That You Love Will Be Carried Away'ĭecember 24/31, 2001 issue of The New Yorker As her two children come to visit her at work, she lets her son have the quarter, and as he uses it in a gamble, it starts to pay off just as it did when Darlene was fantasizing.Everything's Eventual is a 2002 collection of 11 short stories and 3 novellas by American writer Stephen King. All seems to be going exceedingly well until she suddenly reappears back in the hotel room, left with nothing but her lucky quarter. Moving on to a real casino, she keeps trying her luck, and soon she's winning thousands of dollars. She takes a quick gamble on it and finds that it brings her some small luck.

In 2002, it was collected in King's collection Everything's Eventual.ĭarlene Pullen, who is a struggling single mother with two children (a rebellious teenage daughter and a sickly young son) and an unfulfilling job as a maid, is left a tip of a single quarter with a note saying that it is a 'luckey quarter'. In 1997, it was published in the limited-edition collection Six Stories. It was originally published in the June 30/Jissue of USA Weekend. Luckey Quarter is a short story by American writer Stephen King. Short story by Stephen King 'Luckey Quarter'

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