![]() ![]() The man "came through" and immediately suffered a massive heart attack, living just long enough to utter a single cryptic phrase: The father spares his children the gruesome semi-apocryphal account of the first human to be Jaunted awake, a condemned murderer offered a full pardon for agreeing to the experiment. That, the father explains, is why all people must undergo general anaesthesia before using the Jaunt. He explains how the scientist who serendipitously discovered it quickly learned that it had a disturbing, inexplicable effect on the mice he "sent through"-eventually concluding that they could only survive the "Jaunt effect" while unconscious. ![]() It was originally published in the June 1981 issue of The Twilight Zone Magazine, and later included in King's own 1985 collection Skeleton Crew.Īs a family prepares to be " Jaunted" to Mars in the 24th century, the father entertains his two children by recounting the curious tale of the discovery and history of this crude form of teleportation. " The Jaunt" is a short story written by Stephen King. ![]()
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