Some help from a fellow Constant Reader needed please...

[LanaBanana]

I could have sworn that I read a short story about a guy who was up on a roof, seemingly about to kill himself, which wasn't by SK, but was published as an extra bit in one of the more recent SK books. And it was awesome.
Problem is that having looked through my collection, I cannot find it anywhere, Google has been no help and am worried I might be going nuts - if anyone has any idea what I'm talking about and knows the name of the story, or at least which book it came with, I would be forever grateful.

Thanks

Also, seriously, how cute is the pig!

 

[Dana Jean]

Welcome Lana!

 

[prufrock21]

Welcome. Have no idea. But there is a story by Philip Roth called "The Conversion of the Jews" with a similar premise. I recommend it highly.

 

[Spideyman]

Hi and welcome. No idea here.

 

[mal]

Howdy LanaBanana and welcome! Was the book a compilation of short stories by different writers? I've never come across a pure Stephen King book where there were any stories from other authors, even excerpts. All the best, mal.

 

[Moderator]

More likely an anthology by various authors but not familiar with the plot you've described.

 

[Doc Creed]

Sorry, I can only think about Nick Hornby's novel A Long Way Down. It begins much the way you described. You said "short", though.

 

[skimom2]

I could have sworn that I read a short story about a guy who was up on a roof, seemingly about to kill himself, which wasn't by SK, but was published as an extra bit in one of the more recent SK books. And it was awesome.
Problem is that having looked through my collection, I cannot find it anywhere, Google has been no help and am worried I might be going nuts - if anyone has any idea what I'm talking about and knows the name of the story, or at least which book it came with, I would be forever grateful.

Thanks

Also, seriously, how cute is the pig!

The short story The Ledge sort of fits that one, but it is definitely Mr. King. That bit with the pigeon pecking the protagonist's bare ankle has always stuck with me.

 

[Tery]

The short story The Ledge sort of fits that one, but it is definitely Mr. King. That bit with the pigeon pecking the protagonist's bare ankle has always stuck with me.

Yes, now that you mention it. But that is an SK story.

 

[skimom2]

Yes, now that you mention it. But that is an SK story.

Yep. If it was an anthology, it could be anyone. I can't think of a particular one, amongst the anthologies I've read, but this are probably a drop in the ocean of the number Mr. King's stories have been in.

 

[Senor_Biggles]

I could have sworn that I read a short story about a guy who was up on a roof, seemingly about to kill himself, which wasn't by SK, but was published as an extra bit in one of the more recent SK books. And it was awesome.
Problem is that having looked through my collection, I cannot find it anywhere, Google has been no help and am worried I might be going nuts - if anyone has any idea what I'm talking about and knows the name of the story, or at least which book it came with, I would be forever grateful.

Thanks

Any chance that's the version of On Writing that was published in England? There was a short story competition that went along with On Writing and the winning entry got published in the paperback edition. I've read On Writing a fair few times but I originally had it in hardback and I think I only read the winning short story in the paperback once, but that description is ringing a bell. I'm thinking young man in multi story shopping mall about to hurl himself off the top floor?

 

[CrimsonKingAH]

Hello and welcome to SKMB

 

[Neesy]

I could have sworn that I read a short story about a guy who was up on a roof, seemingly about to kill himself, which wasn't by SK, but was published as an extra bit in one of the more recent SK books. And it was awesome.
Problem is that having looked through my collection, I cannot find it anywhere, Google has been no help and am worried I might be going nuts - if anyone has any idea what I'm talking about and knows the name of the story, or at least which book it came with, I would be forever grateful.

Thanks

Also, seriously, how cute is the pig!

LanaBanana - I think you may be confused.

It sounds like a good idea for a story though!

Welcome to SKMB

 

[Neesy]

The short story The Ledge sort of fits that one, but it is definitely Mr. King. That bit with the pigeon pecking the protagonist's bare ankle has always stuck with me.

Yes, now that you mention it. But that is an SK story.

Ooops - sorry LanaBanana - looks like I stand corrected!

 

[Senor_Biggles]

LanaBanana - I think you may be confused.

It sounds like a good idea for a story though!

No confusion about the story (maybe about the idea that little piggies look cute rather than delicious).

It's called 'Jumper' and it's by Garrett Addams.

It appears in the English paperback edition of 'On Writing', at least it does in my copy.

 

[not_nadine]

My first thought was The Ledge as well, but he was not trying to kill himself.

 

[LanaBanana]

Oh My God - it is! It is Jumper!! I must have read it in the 2001 paperback version, but it's not in the 2012 version (damn my obsessive need to have matching covers).
Thank you so much!

Also thanks all for the welcome

 

[GNTLGNT]

...pshew!...glad we got pulled back from the precipice...welcome oh curved yellow fruit lady!....

 

[stacy270]

Hello and welcome!