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Tom Brokaw (Home Delivery portrayal)

Tom Brokaw (Home Delivery portrayal) is recorded in 1 distinct story.

The narrative depicts Tom Brokaw introducing the fictional television film of returning dead, warning parents to send children out. This invented broadcast is separate from routine TV references and voice imitations elsewhere.

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No big deal until the first news film (“You may want to ask your children to leave the room,” Tom Brokaw introduced gravely) showed up on network TV, decayed monsters with naked bone showing through their dried skin, traffic accident victims, the morticians’ concealing make-up sloughed away so that the ripped faces and bashed-in skulls showed, women with their hair teased into dirt-clogged beehives where worms and beetles still squirmed and crawled, their faces alternately vacuous and informed with a …

The narrative depicts Tom Brokaw introducing the fictional television film of returning dead, warning parents to send children out. This invented broadcast is separate from routine TV references and voice imitations elsewhere.

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Home Delivery ↗ (paid link)By Stephen KingCollected in Nightmares & Dreamscapes