This story, written by Richard Bachman, tells of a horrorfying story. William Halleck is a lawyer, with a weight problem, but after tragically hitting an old Gypsy woman while driving home in the town of Fairview, he starts to loose weight. At first he thinks little of it, but he keeps loosing weight at an alarming rate, and the word that the old Gypsy man said to him keeps haunting his dreams - 'Thinner'.