Talk:On a Lonesome Road/@comment-25052433-20140816060636/@comment-4893169-20140816230439

Thank you for the critique. This story was influenced by a picture I saw on the Chilling Tales For Dark Nights site and by an actual road that lies on the edge of town near where I live. The road is rather overgrown with trees and bushes and barely has room for two cars, it had gotten partly covered with a slide several years back, but deemed too much trouble to clear out on account of it being near an rather unstable slide area. Like in the story, the school bus used to use this road as a shortcut to town rather take the long way running along side the nearby beach. It never used to bother me as a kid on account I wasn't alone when I traveled on it, but I would never go there alone due to its rather spooky atmosphere.

About the mailbox and the fog. I thought maybe this malevolent entity could partly disguise itself as fog and blend in with the typical coastal fog of this Northern California location, and who would also notice anything strange about a weathered old mailbox? Lots of worn-out mailboxes where I am, who knows...there might be a demon living in one of them. It's also far less cliche theme than a haunted house or graveyard.