Graduation Afternoon

"Graduation Afternoon" is a short story by American writer Stephen King, originally published in the March 2007 issue of Postscripts, and collected in King's 2008 collection Just After Sunset. The story tells of a young woman enjoying her wealthy boyfriend's high school graduation party at his suburban Connecticut home when events take an unexpected turn. PopMatters compared the ending of the story to Two Suns in the Sunset by Pink Floyd. M. John Harrison at The Guardian called it an "elegiac and old-fashioned end-of-the-world piece." Matt Thorne at The Independent said the horror in Graduation Afternoon "is not just a premonition of something that could happen, but something that would happen." The story was adapted by Marie D.