The Breathing Method

 "'The child I delivered that night is not yet forty-five," said McCarron. 'He's handsome and intelligent. And he has his mother's brown eyes.'" (p. 49)

There is a strange club in New York where men tell each other stories. 

In this book, the story is told by Dr. McCarron. The story is about a woman he took care of.  Dr. McCarron teaches her an unusual breathing method which intended to help her through childbirth. 

However, when she is on the way to the hospital on an icy winter night, her taxi crashes and she is decapitated. McCarron arrives at the crash site and realizes that Sandra is somehow still alive. Her lungs in her decapitated body are still pumping air, as her head, some feet away, is working to sustain the breathing method so that the baby can be born. McCarron manages to deliver the infant alive and well. And tell her "It is a boy." And she answered, "Thank you." After that, the baby is adopted somewhere.  

It was a long and weird story! And I struggled with many names that appeared in this story. I want to read other stories by Stephen King. 

Stephen. K. (1982) The Breathing Method. US, Penguin Readers.