It's a short story but I guess it could still be shorter than this. I don't suppose there was really a need for that amount of victims. But the conclusive part is enjoyable enough and for once I didn't cringe at too many sentences (although in retrospect, the length of the story miiiiight contribute big time). I wonder if Stephen King's depiction of kids' mind and how their head forms thoughts (especially when they are under ten years old) is accurate enough, but even I myself don't really remember what was going on in my head when I was six or five.. so I guess I'd never know.