Chapter 7 - Unidentified Fuzz

Certain types of mold are easy to recognize. Bread mold is greenish-white, cheese-mold is a darker green and coffee mold is a whitish-grey. Jack found some type of fuzz on his rear-view mirror and thought it was just some dust that had collected in weird place. There was enough dust on the dashboard to fill a pepper shaker, so it was only natural that he assume that it was the same stuff. While waiting for a stoplight, his eye was drawn toward the fuzz and he noticed tiny spheres at the tips of minute spines. Jack’s first thought was that it was mold. A horn went off behind him and he saw the driver behind him shooing him to move his ass. He looked up at a green light and went through the intersection determined to stop at the next available parking lot to get a closer look.
He stopped at a convenience store and put the car in park. The fuzz on the rear-view mirror had spread. Well, it was all over the back of the mirror where he never really looked or cleaned before and he just became aware that it was growing away from the original spot that he first noticed. “What the…” he muttered to himself. Jack went inside the store and scanned the traveler’s toiletry section for some cotton swabs or some kind of cleaning agent. That shit was too expensive so he settled for a cup of hot water and some napkins. He went back out to his car and began to clean the rear-view mirror off by dipping a napkin in the hot water and wiping at the fuzz. He examined the results of his efforts and was disturbed that he was unable to figure out how it got there.