title: The Stephen King Collection: Stories from Night Shift
author:  Stephen King 
description: Read by John Glover<br>Ten CDs, 9 hours <br>Tales from "Gray Matter include: <br>The BoogeymanStrawberry Spring<br>Gray Matter<br>The Woman in the Room<br>Battleground <br>Tales from "Graveyard Shift include: <br>Graveyard Shift<br>The Man Who Loved Flowers<br>The Last Rung on The Ladder<br>Night Surf<br>Jerusalem's Lot <br>Tales from "Lawnmower Man include: <br>Lawnmower Man<br>The Mangler<br>Quitters, Inc.<br>The Ledge<br>Sometimes They Come Back
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  ## THE GREEN MILE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Novel in Six Parts
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### STEPHEN KING
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
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  Introduction
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I go through cycles of insomnia - a fact that won't surprise people who've
  read the novel chronicling the adventures of Ralph Roberts - and so I try to
  keep a story handy for those nights when sleep won't come. I tell these to
  myself as I lie in the dark, writing them in my mind just as I would on a
  typewriter or a word processor, often going back and changing words, adding
  thoughts, deleting clauses, making up the dialogue. Each night I start over at
  the beginning, getting a little further before I drop off. By the fifth or
  sixth night I've usually got whole chunks of prose memorized. This probably
  sounds a little nuts, but it's soothing and as a time-passer, it beats the
  shit out of counting sheep.
  
  
  
  
  
  These stories eventually wear out, just as a book will after it's been read
  