![]() ![]() ![]() During the course of the night, LaVerne convinces Randy that they should sit together and keep each other warm. Now unwilling to risk swimming for shore, Randy and LaVerne take turns watching the creature, which changes positions every now and then - it is either under the raft, or out of it. Unable to free his friend, Randy watches as Deke is slowly consumed by the creature. After the initial panic, Deke decides he could make the bitch swim to the shore, but as he prepares to jump into the lake he steps on a crack on the raft and the creature grabs him by his foot. The creature instantly wraps around her arm, pulling her into itself and gradually dissolving her. Deke ridicules Randy's suspicions that the "oil slick" was chasing the girls, refusing to take the situation seriously until Rachel touches it. After they swim out to the raft in the middle of the lake, a mysterious oil slick-like creature appears in the water beneath them. ![]() It was originally published in the November 1982 issue of Gallery, and later included in King's own 1985 collection Skeleton Crew.įour college students – two young men (Randy and Deke) and two young women (Rachel and LaVerne) – go out to swim on a remote Pennsylvania lake during the autumn, when nobody is around. " The Raft" is a short story written by Stephen King. ![]()
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