Title: The Gingerbread Girl
Description: "The Gingerbread Girl" follows the story of Em, who after suffering a devastating loss, starts running. Soon Em runs from her husband and her home all the way to the airport. Looking for solace, Em's running takes her to the Florida Gulf where she settles into the loneliest stretch of Vermillion Key. Once there Em keeps up her running until one day she makes the mistake of looking into the driveway of a man named Pickering. Pickering also enjoys the privacy of Vermillion Key, but the young women he brings there suffer the consequences. Will Em be next?

([source][1])


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Also contained in:

 - [Just After Sunset][2]


  [1]: https://www.stephenking.com/library/short_story/gingerbread_girl_the.html
  [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81588W/Just_After_Sunset
Subjects: serial murderers, fiction, running, grief, crib death, short story
Places: Florida, Vermillion Key, Kozy's Qwik-Pik, corner of Main and Eastern, the Morris Hotel, Tallahassee, Naples
People: Emily, Jim Pickering, Susan Steiner, Amy, Henry, Dr. Mendez, Jodi Anderson, a bellman, Rusty Jackson, Mariette, Debra, Deke Hollis