Cookie Jar (short story)
In 1927, when Rhett is aged two, his mother Moira leaves the home she shared with her husband and their three sons, moving into a cottage on the other side of their town.She begins drawing an elaborate map on a wall of her cottage which she claims depicts "Lalanka", a country in another world populated by "entities": creatures that want to come to Earth to devour it.Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the three brothers all enlist in the military, with Jack dying when his fighter plane is shot down during the Battle of Iwo Jima.In April 1945, he participates in the liberation of the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps, where the horrific sights he witnesses make him remember his mother's description of Lalanka.[4] Stephen J. Spignesi notes that Cookie Jar" shares a similar framing device as Blockade Billy and The Green Mile, with "a retired senior citizen recounting an epic story from his past".
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