The Better Late than Never February 2010 Horror Prompt

LaurieD · Feb 3, 2010

You asked for it, so here it is...

February's prompt... waiting.

No, seriously that's it.

Waiting.

Waiting in line, waiting for someone to call, waiting for your flight to leave, for the mail to come, for that really loud person to finally shut up, for your sweet lover to come home after being away so long...

Take that familiar state of suspended annimation and really crank up the volume on it.

No real rules on this one - do with it what you will.

It worked pretty well, I thought, when Boston posted the links to everyone's January prompt story on the first page of last month's prompt, so I'll do the same. Send me your links as you post your stories to syw and I'll add them to this page.

:evil

Damien's Story When Dark Things Sleep
Soap's Story Cooking 101
Greg's Story Any Minute Now
Steve's Story Waiting for a Happy Meal
bigb's Story Snowmageddon
Effie's Story Date Night
Heather's Story Waiting
Ted's Story Waiting
Dolores's Story Untitled

soapdish · Feb 3, 2010

I love this, Laurie. Frustration from waiting for something, whatever it is, seems like a perfect setup for something horrific to happen. It's filled with tension. Can't wait to see what everyone comes up with.

DL Hegel · Feb 3, 2010

Awesome prompt

Leukman · Feb 3, 2010

I've been WAITING for this for three days.

dgrintalis · Feb 3, 2010

This is a wonderful prompt, Laurie! So full of possibilities...

Leukman · Feb 3, 2010

*waits for bacon sammich*

slcboston · Feb 3, 2010

I liked the part where I had a good idea. :idea:

Now, if only I could finish my January prompt....

.... Procrastination is waiting, right?

LaurieD · Feb 3, 2010

Cool -- I'm glad you all like it...

Now, what are you waiting for? Get to work!

:whip:

Haggis · Feb 3, 2010

Nice. Verra nice.

*runs out and stickifies thread*

If I wait long enough, maybe I can finish a story for the prompt.

Tin Man · Feb 3, 2010

Waiting for my Muse to sober up....

FOTSGreg · Feb 3, 2010

Oh! This is great - and I've been looking for a prompt like this to rewrite a short story called Any Minute Now tht I wrote a long time ago, lost, but still have the basics of rattling around in my head.

I think maybe I can do it this month. Yeah, Any Minute Now...

Kitty · Feb 3, 2010

shweet prompt

... may go n enslave the muse to give me an idea or two for it

dgrintalis · Feb 3, 2010

Mine is done and posted! When Dark Things Sleep

smsarber · Feb 11, 2010

I'll give it a shot. Waiting to get out of the hospital could be great inspiration.

smsarber · Feb 13, 2010

I am posting a flash piece called "Waiting for a Happy Meal" in Horror SYW.

soapdish · Feb 13, 2010

Mine is up now too. Cooking 101.

LaurieD · Feb 13, 2010

bigb sent me the link for his story and I saw lots of you guys had finished yours - first page updated, thread bumped...

FOTSGreg · Feb 13, 2010

I forgot to post here last night that Any Minute Now, my February prompt, has been posted in SYW.

Any Minute Now is Quentin Dallas story for those of you who might be his fans. It's a bit grittier, with less humor, than his first story The Light of an Oncoming Train as our PI of the weird tells us about one of his most bizarre cases.

EFCollins · Feb 13, 2010

Okie doke, y'all. My February Prompt:

Date Night

Laurie: To post hyperlinks in text, copy the link to the story and start your thread or edit your post. Then, type the text (in this case the titles of the stories) and highlight the title. On the message box (where you type your message) you'll see a little globe looking thing with a chain link in front of it. Click it and paste the link into the pop-up box, then click ok.

Or, you can just do it this way (make sure to remove the asterisks) [URL="link to the story here"*]Title Here[*/URL] Make sure to put the quotation marks around the link so that the hyperlinking works.

bigb · Feb 14, 2010

Mine is up
thanks

LaurieD · Feb 14, 2010

EFCollins said:
Okie doke, y'all. My February Prompt:

Date Night

Laurie: To post hyperlinks in text, copy the link to the story and start your thread or edit your post. Then, type the text (in this case the titles of the stories) and highlight the title. On the message box (where you type your message) you'll see a little globe looking thing with a chain link in front of it. Click it and paste the link into the pop-up box, then click ok.

Or, you can just do it this way (make sure to remove the asterisks) [URL="link to the story here"*]Title Here[*/URL] Make sure to put the quotation marks around the link so that the hyperlinking works.

Thank you - notes made for future reference

*wanders off to add Effie's story to first post and fix links*

regdog · Feb 17, 2010

Okay here's mine Waiting

LaurieD · Feb 17, 2010

*adds Heather's story linky to first post*

EFCollins · Feb 20, 2010

EFCollins said:
Okie doke, y'all. My February Prompt:

Date Night

Revised and revision posted.

dolores haze · Feb 21, 2010

My Feb. prompt story is up here. I think I've finally grossed myself out.

The Better Late than Never February 2010 Horror Prompt

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