If you don’t know what story cubes are, see the introduction to the story cubes series.
To see the original roll of the story cubes, see yesterday’s post.
“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.”
It is a land where monsters roam on Maple Street disguised as humans because they are humans. A place where airplanes are drawn back in time to when Kennedy airport was still a dinosaur playground. A dimension where technology haunts our lives and our dreams fifty years before smartphones took fiction and made it reality.
It is the zone where fortune’s favors always come at a high price and the line between luck and curse is danced across like a child playing hopscotch.
The Twilight Zone came out over sixty years ago and it is still one of the best things to ever come out of TV. Its opening sequence is unforgettable:
If I had to pick a favorite of the 19 stories in this book, it would be “A Stop at Willoughby.” That said, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” should be required reading for everyone. It is as relevant and important now as it was when it came out decades ago. McCarthyism may be a term in a history book now, but it never went away: it went and hid in Maple Streets all over the world, and now has been replaced by something even worse.
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