The Misty Room
Comments(0)Here’s a description that I wrote for my English class. I don’t think that it’s that good, but I never like what I write. Anyway, here it is:
The room is filled with mist, a strange occurrence in most rooms, but not in this one. In this room, mist is a consuming thing. It always seems as though the mist has just appeared; it is always there, never dissipating, never changing.
The mist is thick. The walls are invisible, as if the room goes on forever, but the mist also seems thin. The feeling of being just on the edge of the mist, able to see the whole room, rests constantly in the back of the mind.
The walls, when they are found, are made of thick, dark wood. Covered with a slight film of water, the scratched wood makes an impenetrable barrier with the outside. It lets none see in, and none see out.
On one of the walls is a door, the only door in the room. It is festooned with only a handle and a small window about head height. The window is the only way to see in and out of the room, but water covers it, just like the walls, making the other side difficult to see.
A bench hugs the four walls of the room. It almost forms a complete square, but a gap at the doorway keeps it from going the whole way around the room. The bench consists of the same wood as the walls, but fewer scratch marks appear on the bench than on the walls. Over time, people, sitting on the bench, made a constantly changing barrier that protected it from scratching, but at the same time they slowly smoothed it. Their bodies rubbing away tiny particles of wood, making the bench smooth and comfortable.
The floor is covered with simple tiles. At one time the tile was neat, straight, and perfectly white. Now, however, the tiles are a light brown color, and each tile doesn’t quite have the same tint as the tile next to it. Occasionally, a tile will be loose or not quite as straight as those around it.
The tiles give way in the center of the floor for a pit of coals. The coals make a hissing noise as water is slowly sprayed onto them. While a machine pumps the water onto the coals, a maintenance man checks every hour to make sure that they stay hot enough to keep the room at the optimal temperature to make people sweat.
Outside the sauna is a health spa. Every day the spa is filled with people going about their business, only occasionally stepping into the misty room to experience its rejuvenating ability.
