My Twilight Zone

“You're travelling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone!"

(Rod Serling’s opening monologue prefacing each episode of ‘The Twilight Zone.’)

A writer who is committed to creating a believable fictitious world inhabited by fully-fleshed figments of my imagination, I enjoy venturing into a wondrous wilderness of my own making grounded in the reality of local setting. The setting for my novels in the genre of Contemporary is my native state of Rhode Island.

My WIP takes place in the rural “twilight zone” of Foster.

From the Prologue:

Sparsely settled with 90 persons per square mile at the time of the 2010 census, the town of Foster is a state of mind as much as it is a geographic entity for those who live here. Areas of dense woodland by the acre afford each homesteader plenty of elbow room between their nearest neighbors. Properties accessed by narrow driveways snaking homeward, and flanked by a tangle of trees on three sides, grant privacy. So much for swatting at an onslaught of flies and mosquitoes every summer. As for winters, “No school, Foster-Glocester!” This public announcement was heralded often enough by Rhode Island’s beloved radio broadcaster, Salty Brine, on WPRO AM.

The only boundaries reining in my imagination are those pertaining to basic grammar rules as they facilitate cadence and flow:

Comma common sense
Subject – verb agreement

Otherwise, I make my own decisions in constructing sentences and paragraphs along the journey inside my twilight zone where imagination runs wild.