Growing up in the desert with a mom fighting multiple sclerosis, Nat Cassidy had a surreal childhood. How his imagined conversations with a Stephen King character changed his life. Plus, why one electric vehicles maker with an Arizona presence is buying some parts of another.
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Kent Meister, Tor NightfireHorror writer Nat Cassidy sometimes felt like he lived at the edge of civilization growing up in Phoenix, which is why Stephen King stories sometimes felt like the key to understanding real life.
