REAL KING FICTION?
by Rycke Foreman
BANGOR, Maine — Stephen King, best-selling author of Salem’s Lot, The Stand, and Nightmares & Dreamscapes, stepped onto his front porch yesterday morning and found a sight befitting only him. A fanatic fan had accidentally impaled himself while climbing over King’s wrought-iron gate for a personal “interview.” King saw the body, identified as Richard Foreman of Cottonwood, Arizona, after the man’s wife ran to the author’s door, begging to call 911.
Apparently the woman, Miranda Foreman, pushed open the unlocked gate after her husband had slipped. Mr. Foreman, age 37, was an up-and-coming author himself. He was pronounced DOA at the local hospital.
King’s only comment was, “Great, now I’ll have a haunted gate—a ghost writer no less. But you know, that could make for one interesting story...” Will Ms. Foreman and Mr. King soon be collaborating on story rights? One wonders...
Originally published in Parlour Papers, August 1994
Updated version ©2009 Richard M. Foreman
