It was 21 years of silence, it was 21 years of pain?

1985:  Stephen King publishes the short story “Ballad of the Flexible Bullet”.  It describes a writer’s descent into paranoid madness.  When he moves into a new home, he doesn’t have a phone installed; he has discovered that phones run not on electricity but on radium.  There is a bit of radium in every handset, and the radiation is responsible for the increased cancer rate, not smoking or car exhaust.

2006: In the midst of brain cancer scares, Stephen King publishes the novel “Cell”.  It describes a pulse sent over all cell phones, turning all those talking on the phones at that moment into homicidal zombies who bite out the throats of everyone they meet.  In the introduction, he explains that he refuses to have a cell phone.

Um.  Yeah.

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