The gingerbread girl
The gingerbread girl ( English original : The Gingerbread Girl ) is a short story by American writer Stephen King , in 2007 in the July issue of the US magazine Esquire published.
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The title of the work is based on the fairy tale The Gingerbread Man , which is very well known in the English-speaking world , in which a piece of pastry comes to life and runs away to avoid being eaten. A cunning fox eats it anyway.
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Emily Owensby starts after the infant death always extensively to run and not to run in order to process their pain their baby. She is becoming increasingly estranged from her husband, from whom she finally separates after six years. She travels to Florida to find herself in her father's secluded summer cabin.
One day, while running, she surprises a serial killer trying to get rid of a woman's corpse. He notices Emily, knocks her down and ties her to a chair in his kitchen. As soon as he has disposed of the body of one victim, it should be his next.
While the killer is away, Emily manages to break free from the chair, but he comes back while she is still in the house. She can flee; the killer follows her and chases her down the beach. Now her fitness benefits her ; However, Emily's pursuer is persistent and while hunting, kills an innocent who gets in his way.
After all, Emily has only one solution: she wants to leave the enemy behind by swimming and runs into the sea. The killer stumbles blindly after her, but he cannot swim - worse still: he has a water phobia . When Emily realizes this, she pulls him out into the current, where he drowns after a long fight.