The morning mist, the stranger and the coincidence. Three phrases combined in one short piece of writing. 17/04/17 The morning mist was minding its own business, sitting quietly and nigh-on motionless on the hills. Yet everyone blamed the mist for the series of events that followed. The only crime that the mist might have committed was to leave teardrops of moisture on the filigree cobwebs and slender twigs of the hedgerows. And yet the mist was blamed. Some said that if it wasn’t for the mist the coach driver would have seen the stag. Others said that if it wasn’t for the mist the stag would have seen and heard the coach. Either way the bus would have delivered the children to school on time and the stag would have walked majestically away to find his does. As it was, however, as everyone said, the mist had intervened, got in the way, caused the first steps in a string of events. A stranger to the area might have asked how the mist could be to blame for the hu...
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