Drunken Fireworks by
Stephen King
Alden and his mom are
slowly drinking their lives away in small town Maine and that is just the way
they like it. They came into some money
and during the summers they spend their time, most of it drunk, on the shores
of Lake Abenaki. Three years or so ago
the Massimo’s moved in across the lake in that fancy house with all the bedrooms. That Fourth of July the two families
inadvertently start a fireworks competition.
Who has the bigger, badder, louder fireworks? Every Independence Day the
two families see who can top who. Well, things truly blew up this past July 4th.
If you have ever been
to Maine and liked the local’s accents then you must give this one a
listen. The reader does an amazing
job. Sounds like a local just sat down
on their porch to tell a tale. It did
take me a few minutes to get the accent right in my head so I could understand
the words, but once I did it was great.
If you want to read
this story right now, you’ll have to listen to it. This short story (only two discs, running for
ninety minutes) is only available as an audiobook. (It will appear in his short story collection
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams in November.)
