A rare Stephen King short story that’s both publicly available in a literature magazine and on point for a health narratives course. It has the SK mark of supernatural weirdness/ unexplainability and also nicely profound messages about why human beings turn down unlimited good things – like fresh baked cookies – in favor of something horrible, like war. Mental health struggles become a superpower and there’s symbolism to keep a literature class well engaged for a class period.
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Link: https://www.vqronline.org/fiction/2016/03/cookie-jar
Details
Language: English
Type of Story: Newspaper or Magazine
Medium: written
Contributed by: Health Story Hub Team ( health-storyhub@uiowa.edu )
Citation:
King, Stephen. (2016). The cookie jar. Virginia Quarterly Review, 92. Retrieved July 2, 2022, from https://www.vqronline.org/fiction/2016/03/cookie-jar