The Reach

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"The Reach" is a short story by Stephen King. First published in Yankee magazine in 1981 under the title "Do the Dead Sing?", the re-titled story was collected in Skeleton Crew in 1985. The story is about Stella Flanders, the oldest living woman on Goat Island off the Maine coast. In the coldest winter on record, The Reach - the stretch of open water between the island and mainland - freezes over for the first time since 1938, and may be traversed by foot. Though Stella has never left the tiny isle and its insular community in her life, with her health failing from cancer, she hears The Reach calling her.

[edit] Adaptations

"The Reach" has been adapted by artist Glenn Chadbourne for the book The Secretary of Dreams, a collection of comics based on King's short fiction. The Secretary of Dreams will be published by Cemetery Dance in Summer 2006.