Short Story Question

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addieprey

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I'm beginning to question myself (and, to a small degree, my sanity) about whether it is a SK story or not. I could have mixed it with some other story.

I remember the boy's mother had to go to work and leave him home alone (because of the snow day called in on account of the storm) and she works in a town nearby, and that town is one of the ones the guy on the radio says has been "canceled", so the boy calls his mother's work # and gets an out of order signal. Something like that.

I went to the library on SK.com and looked through the complete list of short stories hoping one of the titles would pop out and hit me in the nose, but no go.

If it isn't a SK story prhaps someone out there read it and knows who it was written by.

Maybe I have finally gone all the way around the bend!
 

skimom2

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The little boy home alone--or almost--could be GRAMMA. God, That story creeped me out. This is ringing a faint bell for me, too, though. Now I need to go searching--lol
 

blunthead

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The little boy home alone--or almost--could be GRAMMA. God, That story creeped me out. This is ringing a faint bell for me, too, though. Now I need to go searching--lol
The synopsis of Gramma which I just read makes no mention of the boy making any phone calls, nor of snow being a factor in the story, so I'm assuming that Gramma is not the one.
 

mstay

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I'm beginning to question myself (and, to a small degree, my sanity) about whether it is a SK story or not. I could have mixed it with some other story.

I remember the boy's mother had to go to work and leave him home alone (because of the snow day called in on account of the storm) and she works in a town nearby, and that town is one of the ones the guy on the radio says has been "canceled", so the boy calls his mother's work # and gets an out of order signal. Something like that.

I went to the library on SK.com and looked through the complete list of short stories hoping one of the titles would pop out and hit me in the nose, but no go.

If it isn't a SK story prhaps someone out there read it and knows who it was written by.

Maybe I have finally gone all the way around the bend!

It sounds like it could be a Twilight Zone episode. Creepy!
 

addieprey

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Who are some of your other lifetime favorite authors?

I'm all over the map with authors (and most everything else) so it could have been anyone. I could have heard it on the radio (it's possible).

Whoever it was, it was awhile ago (90' maybe?) not last year. If it was last year, I would really be worried.

Thanks for thinking about this with me, it's been tapping on my brain since last night.