Reach, The

The Reach is a body of water that separates the mainland from Goat Island, Maine, where 95-year old Stella Flanders has contentedly lived her entire life. In this story, Stella remembers the past, the present, the living that populate the island, and the dead that populate her memories. She becomes alarmed when she begins seeing visions of her long deceased husband, Bill Flanders. Bill keeps attempting to lure Stella across the newly frozen Reach, having last froze over in 1938. With her health rapidly deteriorating, Stella sets off to cross the Reach only to become lost in the snow. Frightened, she is soon surrounded by her husband and dearly departed old friends assisting her to the mainland. She is later found following the snowstorm on the mainland four miles from her home, frozen to death.