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“The Life of Chuck” by Stephen King, c.2020 and 2025, Scribner $20, 111 pages.

“The Life of Chuck” author Stephen King

Shane Leonard

Terri Schlichenmeyer The Bookworm Sez

S he was a total stranger.

You’d never seen her before — not that you could remember, anyway — and you may never see her again but you’ll never forget her. You’d thought your week couldn’t get any worse and she turned it around with unexpected kindness and a sunny smile. Tiny actions, as in the newly-released book “The Life of Chuck” by Stephen King, can have gigantic effects.

The internet was down again. Well, it was down-ish in a weird sort of way.

The billboard Marty Anderson saw, the one that everyone saw atop the Midwest Trust building, the one that said “CHARLES KRANTZ” and “39 GREAT YEARS! THANKS,

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