° • ———— THE MIST SENTENCE STARTERS.
’ It wasn’t my fault! ’ ’ I just want you to know that it’s okay… ’ ’ I just want you to know that it’s okay… being scared. ’ ’ And, well, if you need a friend, someone to talk too… ’ ’ I have a friend. God, up above. ’ ’ Don’t you condescend me. ’ ’ You don’t mock me. ’ ’ The day I need a friend like you, I’ll just have myself a little squat and shit one out. ’ ’ That’s not what I was doing. ’ ’ He’s/she’s a fucking kid. He’s/she’s supposed to be stupid. ’ ’ What’s your excuse? ’ ’ With lines like these, I don’t know how good it is. ’ ’ I guess we’ll have to make do. ’ ’ So… any boogeymen? ’ ’ You got that kid killed, and I got his fucking blood on me! ’ ’ We have to tell them. ’ ’ We have to stop them from going outside. ’ ’ We have to tell them. The people in the market. ’ ’ They won’t believe us. ’ ’ I’m not sure I believe it, and I was here. ’ ’ What we saw was impossible. ’ ’ You know that, don’t you? ’ ’ What we saw was impossible. You know that, don’t you? ’ ’ What do we say? How do we… convince them? ’ ’ We gotta discuss how we’re going to stop that thing from getting in here. ’ ’ What do you mean getting in? We shut the loading door. ’ ’ Yeah, but the entire front of the store is plate glass. ’ ’ You can’t convince some people there’s a fire even when their hair is burning. ’ ’ Denial is a powerful thing. ’ ’ What are you saying? What are you proposing? ’ ’ If we all prepare… to meet our maker… ’ ’ Oh, prepare to meet shit! ’ ’ How about if your ass prepares to meet my size ten work boot! ’ ’ The end of times has come. Not in flames, but in mist. ’ ’ If you hit me again, if you dare, you’ll be on your knees. ’ ’ You’ll be on your knees to me before this is through. ’ ’ Now listen people. We are experiencing some kind of disaster. ’ ’ I don’t know whether it’s man-made or natural. ’ ’ I do know that it’s definitely not supernatural. ’ ’ The only way we’re going to help ourselves is to seek rescue. ’ ’ We’re going out. ’ ’ I’m not discussing this any further. ’ ’ I know. I just want to ask a favor. ’ ’ Tie this around your waist. ’ ’ It’ll let us know you at least got three hundred feet. ’ ’ Sure there’s no way I can talk you out of this? ’ ’ There’s nothing out there. Nothing in the mist. ’ ’ What if you’re wrong? ’ ’ I guess… the joke will be on me afterall. ’ ’ You don’t have much faith in humanity, do you? ’ ’ People are basically good; decent. ’ ’ I can’t accept that. ’ ’ Sure, as long as the machines are working and you can dial 911. ’ ’ You throw people in the dark, you scare the shit out of them - no more rules. ’ ’ I had you in school, didn’t I? ’ ’ Like uh, how they… they thought that there were other dimensions. ’ ’ You know, other… other worlds all around us. ’ ’ Well maybe your window turned out to be a door. Isn’t it? ’ ’ They must’ve ripped a hole through by accident. ’ ’ That’s how their world keeps on spilling through into ours. ’ ’ I didn’t understand half of it. ’ ’ Well, we gave it a good shot. ’ ’ Nobody can say we didn’t. ’ ’ I really don’t want you running all over the place. ’ ’ You gotta come look at… the boathouse smashed. ’ ’ Well, you’re a local - any idea what they do up there? ’ ‘ I’m sure you’ve heard the stories. ’ ’ You know, real reliable stuff. ’ ’ Motherfucker! Aw, shit! Motherfucker! Cocksucker! ’ ’ We have Judas in our midst! ’ ’ I wouldn’t have done that if there had been any other way. ’ ’ Shut up, you miserable buzzard! ’ ’ They do it in the Bible, don’t they? ’ ’ Stoning people who piss you off is perfectly okay. ’ ’ Welcome to Sesame Street, kids. Today’s word is ‘expiation’. ’ ’ It appears we may have a problem of some magnitude. ’ ’ What do you know about this mist? ’ ’ I don’t know, man, I’ve got nothing to do with it. ’ ’ How was I supposed to know what you meant? ’ ’ You should’ve said what you meant better! ’ ’ I’ll call the studio when the phones get back up. ’ ’ What choice do they have? ’ ’ How did you two always manage to make me laugh? ’ ’ You have incredibly low standards. ’ ’ Don’t go out there! There’s something in the mist! ’ ’ You want me to report you? You want to lose your job? ’ ’ Look, I’m gonna be taking down names, starting with you. ’ ’ And in the mean time, shut the fuck up and listen. ’ ’ As a species we’re fundamentally insane. ’ ’ Why do you think we invented politics and religion? ’ ’ We got you now, you sorry son of a bitch! ’ ’ That’s what we get for not fixing that roof when we should’ve. ’ ’ Well, you take that up with the Devil when you run into him. ’ ’ You just chat it over at your leisure. ’ ’ Want another reason to get the hell out of here? ’ ’ I’d like to leave before people start drinking the Kool-Aid. ’ ’ Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. ’
