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Into The Haze

Nancy's Notes 🖊️♬

Our gracious host, Rochelle, is asking us to get
creative in 100 words or less using the photo
seen below. This is Friday Fictioneers.

© Lisa Fox

The morning fog clung to my brain like thick wool, heavy and suffocating. I stumbled through the lush, overgrown vegetation, searching for a path that made sense, but every direction seemed identical.

To the left, the air felt cold and unwelcoming. To the right, a strange warm breeze pulled at my sleeves. Stepping backward only brought a disorienting wave of vertigo, while pushing forward promised a journey into the absurd, surreal unknown.

I spun in a slow, dizzying circle as logic quietly dissolved around me. Taking a deep, steadying breath, I closed my eyes and stepped blindly into the haze.

NAR©2026
100 Words

This is “Dazed and Confused” by Led Zeppelin

18 September 2026

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37 thoughts on “Into The Haze”

  2. Nancy, I felt bad for your MC and was hoping she had vertical take-off boots so she could blast her way up and out of it. Sometimes you just have to get through. Nice write to the image.

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  6. Decades ago, science fiction author Larry Niven wrote a series of short stories postulating that fog was actually the blurring of lines between two or more realities. Perhaps that’s what she’s experiencing now.

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  11. Great writing Nance – ‘logic quietly dissolved around me’ – beautifully signals a transition from reality into a surreal fantasy landscape and ending on a blind leap of faith leaving us eager to find out what lies inside the haze? 🙌

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