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Story 1: “Room 24” by Caroline Kepnes.
“Abel heard a siren and remembered the virus.”
“Remembered the virus” is a good summary of the relation of this story to The Stand, but it’s a well-written, unnerving story, and I love an unreliable narrator. I also enjoy stories that are only obliquely connected to another work’s plot, in how those secondary stories fill out the main story’s world.
— Dec 25, 2025 03:40AM
“Abel heard a siren and remembered the virus.”
“Remembered the virus” is a good summary of the relation of this story to The Stand, but it’s a well-written, unnerving story, and I love an unreliable narrator. I also enjoy stories that are only obliquely connected to another work’s plot, in how those secondary stories fill out the main story’s world.
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