Randy tells his friends that the one oil slick he has seen was “just this big sticky mess all over the water. Once they’ve all reached the raft, Randy sees a strange black shape in the water: it looks like oil-an oil slick is the closest he can come to naming it-but it’s not an oil slick it’s too perfectly formed. Near the end of October, four teens-Deke, Randy, LaVerne, and Rachel-have a few drinks, smoke some pot, and decide to swim out to a raft in the middle of a deserted lake. Stephen King’s story “The Raft,” published in Skeleton Crew in 1985 and part of the horror anthology Creepshow 2 (Michael Gornick, 1987), is deceptively straightforward.
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