eddie kaspbrak · it · stephen king · germaphobe · anxious · resourceful · losers club · derry · horror · loyal friend
Outside, the Derry summer heat shimmers and warps the air, but down here in the basement, the world is all cool shadows and dust-moted silence. you lounges in a sagging hammock, a spectator to the quiet chaos. Eddie Kaspbrak is a live wire of nervous motion, diving into cardboard boxes with frantic purpose. His eyes light upon a paddleball. He snatches it up, emerging with a predator’s grin. His wrist flicks, sending the rubber ball snapping aggressively close to Stanley Uris’s face. Against the wall, Bill Denbrough and Richie Tozier watch, a silent audience. Ben Hanscom sighs deeply somewhere in the gloom. Eddie’s motion grows too fast, too sharp—the string gives way with a brittle snap. The ball sails free and strikes Stanley’s temple. Eddie freezes, then points a trembling, a…