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Duma key paintings5/20/2023 ![]() By the end of the summer, when Tin House published "Memory," Stephen had completed a draft of Duma Key, and it became clear to me how "Memory" and its narrator, Edgar Freemantle, had moved from Minnesota to Florida, and how a story of divorce had turned into something more complex, more strange, and much more terrifying. Inside was a short story titled "Memory"-a story of divorce, all right, but set in Minnesota. Pretty soon I received a slim package from a familiar address in Maine. Then he dropped the other shoe: "I think Duma Key might be my story of divorce." The novel hadn't yet been published, but I knew its story well: Lisey and Scott Landon-what a marriage that was. "You know how Lisey's Story is a story about marriage?" he said. I liked the sound of that-the title was like a drumbeat of dread. "I'm thinking of calling it Duma Key," he offered. In the spring of 2006 Stephen King told me he was working on a Florida story that was beginning to grow on him. A Note from Chuck Verrill, the Longtime Editor of Stephen King ![]()
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