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"All That You Love Will Be Carried Away" is a short story by Stephen King that was originally published in The New Yorker Magazine and then collected in Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales.

Plot

A traveling salesman comes to a Motel in Nebraska to commit suicide because he “couldn’t go on living the way he had been living." He has a wife, a daughter, and a hobby: amassing graffiti discovered on his many travels. He first started noting down scrawls on the walls that attracted his attention without any reason but then became “fascinated with those messages.” In his lonely life of a traveling salesman with only miles and miles of the empty road for his companion those “voices on the walls” became his buddies; something to think about during the long drive, something precious and important, something that “spoke” to him. This man decides that “a shot in the mouth is easier than any living change,” but the reader is left pondering whether or not he will execute his plan as it seems to hinge on him being able to dispose of his graffiti archive notebook. The story closes with the man standing near the field outside the motel, ready to throw the book, but clinging to it - as he is clinging to his own life.

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