

Plot summary Ĭhad and Nora Callahan are suffering from financial difficulties brought on by lack of employment and low-paying jobs. Morality received the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette. In the latter publication, King revealed that the story was inspired by issues of moral philosophy in his own life, back when he was a struggling student and would occasionally shoplift or write other students' essays (an academic offence) to make ends meet. It was then included as a bonus story in Blockade Billy, a novella published on May 25, 2010, and later collected and re-introduced in the Novemanthology The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.

Morality is a novella by American writer Stephen King published in the July 2009 issue of Esquire.
