I Am Inhabiting the Fog

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• by Lizann Flatt
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These past two days have been so foggy I feel almost as if I’m inhabiting a different world. I’m in that Stephen King story about the fog…okay not really thankfully! Traveling is more, well, interesting when something like another car or a deer can appear in front of you at the last second. It’s no wonder fog inspires writers to use it as a device to create suspense or to set a mysterious mood. The road is looking like this today:

And the view from my computer chair is also of a dim and whitewashed world:

This lane is looking like the passage to another realm:

Okay so perhaps my imagination is running away with me. Fog…a cloud on the ground…metaphor for confusion, befuddlement…sinister secrets.

Any favorite fog stories come to mind?

By Lizann Flatt

Author of Flatt-out Fantastic Books for Kids