The Reach
As her impending death draws near, Stella encounters more apparitions of the dead of Goat Island, and she makes peace with the knowledge that it is her time to go.Dressed in her warmest clothes, plus her son's long johns and hat, Stella heads across the frozen reach toward the mainland.[1] The real-life alter-ego of Stella Flanders lived and died on a small Maine Island, never setting foot on the mainland.Oates continues to praise King's New England saturated atmospheres as "a poetic evocation of that landscape, its history and its inhabitants".[2] "The Reach" has been adapted by artist Glenn Chadbourne for the book The Secretary of Dreams, a collection of comics based on King's short fiction released by Cemetery Dance in December 2006.