#tabitha king

Laura Cranehill: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the wife shaped bodies Edward Lee: yeaaaah boi Lee: that's what I'm talkin' about!! Lee: lemme just put on my 'wife shaped body inspector' shirt

Cranehill: so what if there was a terrible apocolypse Cranehill: not saying what kind Cranehill: but the important thing to keep in mind is all the women died Lee: bro! Lee: bro no way Lee: bro that's terrible! Lee: women are my favorite guy!

Lee: bro i couldn't live in a world without babes Patricia Highsmith: yeah a world without dames, that's like a world without sunshine Lee: to think Lee: never again to see a booby Highsmith: Highsmith: yeah, exactly that Mary SanGiovanni: that would be the worst thing

Bram Stoker: i don't know what you guys are all upset about Stoker: it doesn't sound so bad to me Lee: bro! Lee: bro you take that back bro! Stoker: i'm just saying, it would be easier to get stuff done Lee: you take that back!!! Lee: all women are queens, bro!!!

Cranehill: but what if Cranehill: in this dude world Cranehill: this world of dudes Cranehill: some super smart scientists came up with a solution Lee: oh thank god bro Cranehill: what if they made new women Lee: new women, bro? Cranehill: out of mushrooms Lee: Lee: bro

Lee: bro i don't know bro Cranehill: they're exactly the same Cranehill: they talk, they think, they're just like people Cranehill: exactly like people Cranehill: mostly like people Cranehill: i mean maybe there's some little differences Cranehill: barely worth mentioning really

Cranehill: i mean, they do kinda like grow mushrooms Cranehill: on their bodies Cranehill: that they have to shave constantly Cranehill: but that's the pain of being a woman, am i right girls? Tabitha King: ha ha too true Sonia Greene: lol hashtag relatable!

Cranehill: also Cranehill: technically these mushroom wives ARE poisonous to men Mary Shelley: they're just like me Cranehill: no i mean that they could kill men Shelley: yeah Shelley: i said what i said

As Stephen King himself has recounted, he had thrown out his first draft of Carrie, but his wife Tabitha dug it out and cleaned it off. She saw the potential in it, and encouraged him to work on it again.

I don't know anything about being a teenage girl or having a period, he protested.

I do, she countered.

Give me tips from Tabitha King, who kept what would become her husband’s first bestseller from the trash and helped him with the perspective that he couldn’t figure out, who had three kids she was raising while her husband had a drinking problem and cocaine addiction, who wrote books while she still had young kids, whose story continues to take a backseat.