tailieunhanh - Stephen king - The plant 2

As I think I told you, Roger’s reaction to the “Sacrifice Photos” was even stronger and more immediate than mine. He came down to my office as if he had rockets in his heels, leaving two distributors waiting in his outer office (and, as I believe Flannery O’Connor once pointed out, a good distributor is hard to find), and when I showed him the pictures, he turned pale, put his hand over his mouth, and made some extremely unlovely gagging sounds so I guess you’d have to say I was more right than wrong about the quality of the photos (considering the subject matter, “quality” is a strange. | L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L THE PLANT by Stephen King part two of a novel in progress p hilt rum press Bangor Maine 2000 L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L i. b Copyright 1983 2000 by föStephen iKing. r All g rights reserved. fö S Y N O P S I S JOHN KENTON who attended Brown University majored in English and was president of the Literary Society has had a rude awakening in the real world he is one of four editors at Zenith House a down-at-the-heels paperback publisher in New York. Zenith has 2 of the paperback market and is fifteenth in a field of fifteen paperback publishers. All of the Zenith House personnel are worried that Apex the parent corporation may decide to put the house on the market if there isn t a sales turnaround in the calendar year due to Zenith s poor distribution network that seems unlikely. On January 4th of 1981 Kenton receives a query letter from CARLOS DETWEILLER of Central Falls Rhode Island. Detweiller twenty-three works in the Central Falls House of Flowers and is hawking a book he has written called True Tales of Demon Infestations. It s obvious to Kenton that Detweiller has absolutely no talent as a then neither do most of the writers on Zenith s roster biggest seller the Macho Man series . He encourages Detweiller to submit sample chapters and an outline. Instead Detweiller submits the work entire which is even more abysmal than Kenton who thought that the book could perhaps be cut down ghost-written and juiced up for The Amityville Horror audience would have believed in his worst nightmares. Yet the worst nightmare of all is in the photographs Detweiller encloses. Some are painfully faked pictures of a séance in progress but a series of four show a gruesomely realistic human sacrifice in which an old man s chest is cut open and a dripping human heart is pulled out of the incision. The story which is told in epistolary style resumes with a letter from John Kenton to his fiancée RUTH .