THE MIST by Stephen King!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tomorrow will see the arrival of The Mist by Stephen King in movie theaters across the country. I just watched the trailer online and it looks to be a chiller. The premise has to do with sinister mist that envelops a community and drives a large portion of the population into one location. As the mysterious activities begin to unfold, so do the personalities of each of the characters in the movie.

I hope that I am never put face to face with a phenomenon that is inexplicable, especially in the company of a lot of people I do not know. I have not had any similar experiences to those in the film, where sheer terror prevails. When I was a young boy visiting my grandparents and other relatives in northeastern Arkansas, it was not uncommon for the family to be awakened in the night and hurried to the storm cellar because of the threat of a tornado, something like the scene in the Wizard of Oz. My uncle would stand in the door of the cellar and scan the sky, obviously concerned. His mother had been killed in a tornado. But I did not understand his anxiety at the time.

But on my thirty fifth birthday, I may have gotten a taste of his fear. We had boarded up our house against the approaching Hurricane Alicia. We decided not to evacuate, despite the fact that we were only about 11 miles from Galveston Bay. We thought the storm would make a turn and go away from us. So my brother and sister in law and their five children came to our home to get away from their mobile home. That made twelve of us in the house.

The storm did not veer and came directly over us. For hours the winds blew and rain fell. Our lights went out around ten o'clock that night. When the winds began to make the house tremble, I stood looking out at the night through a small opening in the boarding. I thought back to my uncle. My brothers wife got a bit loud in her expressions of concern, until I asked her not to scare the kids.

When the eye passed over the house, there was a frightening stillness for about half an hour, but nothing as dramatic as The Mist . I am glad that is just a movie.





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