When Stephen King was 19 years old, the Vietnam War draft lottery had forced thousands of teenage boys from across the country into the line of fire. It wasn't a matter of "if" you were called to war, but "when." It was then that King began writing "The Long Walk," a story about a group of boys — also chosen by lottery — who participate in an annual competition to out-walk each other to the death, where there is one winner and no finish line. He eventually published it under his Richard Bachman pseudonym . King didn't set out to write a political thriller, but after absorbing the constant barrage of news of bloodshed surrounding the lives of American teenagers, the themes manifested anyway. It was impossible for them not to.

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