Prelogue:

Do you know what a "Shining" is? If you do, it's because either you read the book by Stephen King, watched the horrible '80's film adaption, or watched the 8-hour miniseries co-produced by King himself. If not, I'll try to explain. A Shining is something not everybody has. In fact, it's pretty rare. A Shining can come in many ways. Some people can see, hear, or otherwise sense things that others can't. Some might be precognative. Some may have even more inexplicable abilities. In The Shining, a '77 bestselling novel by aforementioned horror author, Stephen King, Danny Torrence, a young boy around the age of six, had a very strong Shining. When his father got a job looking after a famous hotel high in the Colorado mountains, Danny met the chef of the hotel, Dick Hollorann. It turned out that Dick, too, had a Shining, and immediately sensed Danny's similar abilities. He confronted Danny and helped instruct him in the use of his Shining. He told Danny also that strange things may happen at this hotel, but that they are not real. Dick said that if Danny ever saw something he didn't like, he should close his eyes and count to ten. Upon reopening his eyes, the image should be gone.

Dick soon realized that Danny's Shining was very powerful. Still, the hotel chef underestimated things, and when Danny and his parents, Jack and Wendy, were left to take care of the hotel, Many strange things happened.

I've described several ways a person might Shine. For Danny, it often took over his senses. Sometimes he would go into convulsions, in which he would meet a friend of his, Tony, who would give him encouragement and instruction. Danny met spirits. He saw things that had happened decades ago. He saw what would happen if he didn't get out of that hotel, and it wasn't pretty.

I won't spoil the end for you, but I just wanted you to get an idea of what a Shining really is.

Why?

Because I think I have it, too.