Stephen King’s Imprisoned Kids Mirror the Horror at the Border

Photo Illustration by The Daily BeastStephen King’s short stories tended toward a grim denouement.  The shock endings of the stories in Night Shift—often a single line of hanging-thread suspense implying what’s about to happen—first captured my teenage interest. Those stories rarely gave clean escapes, just a reminder that it’s a bad, bad world.King’s full-length novels resolve with more firmness. His new release, The Institute, wraps up all plots after 5