"The Mist"- Stephen King

Entry #1

After a harsh Winter, A late Spring, and now a sweltering Summer, a thick mist rolls in on a small New England town. David, his wife Steff, and their son Billy see this mist, and are quite perplexed by its opaqueness, and perfectly straight edge where it cuts off. David, Billy, and his neighbor Brent Norton, embark on a journey to the supermarket to get some supplies, since the storms have been limiting their trips there. When they get there, it looks like everyone else in the town had the same idea. But, while their shopping they notice the mist rolling in onto the parking lot and engulfing everything in it's path. Thus, making it practically impossible to see beyond the sidewalk, just outside the market's doors. People start to panic, and some people decide to leave. They never saw those people again. David goes in the back room where they keep the generator and it smells horrible, the generator was overheating so he had to shut it off. Ollie one of the shop keepers, a man named Jim, his friend Myron, and a bag-boy named Norm follow him in their to see what's going on. They decide to send Norm outside into the mist to see what plugged up the exhaust of the generator. Well, they open the door and suddenly they see a huge tentacle grab norm and start writhing him about. Norm grabs on to the door and tries to get help from the other guys. David finally goes over to Norm's aid, but everybody else just stares at the enormous tentacle with disbelief. Eventually, the tentacle proves to be too strong for David to hold and Norm gets pulled into the mist, with his blood-curdling screams ringing in their ears. David takes his anger out on Jim and Myron for letting Norm go out into the mist. But he calms down and tries to think what the next step is, in this mind-boggling situation.