What King does do, however, is make you feel like he’s sitting right there with you telling you, personally, a story-between his obvious enthusiasm for his own stories and his lack of pretension in telling them, King really earns the title “storyteller.” In a story like “Mrs. After all, King’s prose is often overly verbose and lacking in literary grace. I’ve often wondered what it is about King’s writing style that is so undeniably appealing. Let’s take a step back for a moment to consider Stephen King’s storytelling. I sometimes find the heavy use of regional accents and speech mannerisms in fiction irritating, but any annoyance with all the rural slang faded quickly and I found myself settling for the story by the time Homer’s tale begins in earnest. King has an obvious fondness for (and almost certainly firsthand experience with) the mannerisms of Maine’s rural residents, and it took me a few pages to get used to the slow, rambling pace of this story-which follows Homer’s somewhat scattered train of thought. Todd many years earlier, shortly before she vanished without a trace. Homer, one of the men, shares the story of his peculiar encounter with the titular Mrs.
It’s narrated as a mostly one-way conversation between two elderly rural Maine geezers. Todd’s Shortcut” is probably most similar to “The Man in the Black Suit,” although the latter has a horror element whereas this story feels more like a milder episodes of The Twilight Zone. Of the stories I’ve read so far this month, “Mrs. It’s wistful and maybe a little melancholy, but in a pleasant way. There’s no gore or violence to be found, and it has a happy ending-it’s almost sweet. Todd’s Shortcut” isn’t a horror story-it’s a “let me tell you about something weird I once saw” campfire tale, told in the form of an old man’s reminiscences. When she vanishes, it’s suggested that she has found her way to an otherworldly realm through which her shortcuts have been taking her. Her shortcuts went from impressive to slightly frightening, as she started covering distances faster than physics should allow. Spoiler-filled synopsis: An old man recounts the story of a woman who disappeared years ago from their rural Maine town: Ophelia Todd, who was obsessed with finding shortcuts whenever she had to drive somewhere. Todd’s Shortcut,” collected in Skeleton Crew.
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