Who wrote the short story that the 1995 cable television movie film loosely adapted from?
Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ( ; November 11, 1922April 11, 2007) was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969).
Slade (short story) "Slade" is an early short story (about 5,200 words) by Stephen King. In 1970, he originally published it in eight installments in the student newspaper "The Maine Campus". It's a Western parody about gunslinger Jack Slade, who protects a damsel in distress against some outlaws.