Strange & Weird Stories

In these stories stuff just happens. There is no scientific justification for anything, and there doesn#xE2;#xAC;"t need to be. Look at your own life: Doesn#xE2;#xAC;"t stuff just happen, all the time? Like what happened to my homework? I know the dog didn#xE2;#xAC;"t really eat it. Or where#xE2;#xAC;"s the remote? Or how did I get here#xE2;#xAC;#xA6;and where is here? Who am I? You know what I mean, but, of course, stuff that happens in these stories is a little more serious than a lost remote. The late-nineteen-fifties and early-sixties television series, Rod Serling#xE2;#xAC;"s THE TWILIGHT ZONE, in my opinion, was filled with stories of events that just happened. When that show began I was ten years old. I would glue myself to the screen, and Rod Serling himself was one of my early heroes, and still is. According to the 1996 Oxford Dictionary, the #xE2;#xAC;Stwilight zone#xE2;#xAC; refers to #xE2;#xAC;S#xE2;#xAC;#xA6;any physical or conceptual area that is undefined or intermediate, esp. one that is eerie or unreal.#xE2;#xAC; So Rod was right on target in naming his series. I#xE2;#xAC;"m not saying my stories will come up to Rod Serling#xE2;#xAC;"s standards; what I am saying is that what he created helped me immensely in what I have created.