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* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]] - In addition to stopping Kennedy's assassination, a large chunk of the novel is spent on Jake's life and various relationships while living in the '50s.
* [[What Could Have Been]] - One of King's earlier ideas for the story:
{{quote| I'd like to tell a time-travel story where this guy finds a diner that connects to 1958... you always go back to the same day. So one day he goes back and just stays. Leaves his 2007 life behind. His goal? To get up to November 22, 1963, and stop Lee Harvey Oswald. He does, and he's convinced he's just FIXED THE WORLD. But when he goes back to '07, the world's a nuclear slag-heap. Not good to fool with Father Time. So then he has to go back again and stop himself... only he's taken on a fatal dose of radiation, so it's a race against time.}}
* [[Who Shot JFK?]] - One of the reasons why Jake just doesn't kill Lee Harvey Oswald right off the bat is because of the conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy's assassination and the possibility that another person may have been involved. {{spoiler|In the end, it's just Oswald working alone.}} In the afterword, King notes that after reading all he could on the subject, this is the situation he considers by far the most likely.
* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]] - No matter how long one spends in the past, returning through the portal dumps you two minutes after you left.
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