Luckey Quarter
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| "Luckey Quarter" | |
| Author | Stephen King |
|---|---|
| Country |  USA |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Short stories |
| Published in | Six Stories (1st release), Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales |
| Publisher | Philtrum Press (1st release) |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Publication date | 1997 |
Luckey Quarter is the fourteenth and final short story in the Stephen King collection Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales. It was first released in his anthology Six Stories in 1997.
[edit] Plot summary
Darlene Pullen, who is a struggling single mother with two children (a rebellious teenage daughter and a sickly young son) and a lousy job as a maid, is left a tip of a single quarter with a note saying that it is a "luckey quarter". She takes a quick gamble on it and finds that it brings her some small luck. Moving on to a real casino, she keeps trying her luck, and soon she's winning thousands of dollars. All seems to be going exceeding well...
...and then she stops fantasizing and reappears back in the hotel room, left with nothing but her lucky quarter. As her two children come to visit her at work, she lets her son have the quarter, and as he uses it in a gamble, it starts to pay off just as it did when Darlene was fantasizing. "Luckey," she thinks to herself as the story ends. "So luckey, oh luckey me."
