What scares you?

breena · May 3, 2006

I love how Ray Bradbury spoke about making a list of nouns that helped him get in touch with not only his fears, but his story ideas. So what would your nouns be? Here's mine:
the dark
basements
boneyards
carnies
drowning
heights
snakes
death
revelations

James Buchanan · May 3, 2006

cockroaches
black crickets (the ones that look kinda like cockroaches in cricket form)

Liam Jackson · May 3, 2006

INSANITY
INSANITY
INSANITY
INSANITY
INSANITY
INSANITY
INSANITY
INSANITY
INSANITY
INSANITY
INSANITY
INSANITY
INSANITY
INSANITY

Did you know that "insanity" spelled backwards is "ytinasni"? Scary thought, uh?

Other personal buzzwords are:

clowns
closet
demons
drowning
voices
caverns

breena · May 3, 2006

Yeah, insanity is a great one. (But only really creative people have to worry about that one.)

Liam Jackson · May 3, 2006

I'm safe! Yay!

bsolah · May 3, 2006

Hmmm, buzz words.

Unknown
dark
clown
isolation
outcast

CACTUSWENDY · May 3, 2006

Insanity?

Hum. (sitting here picking lent out of navel) Maybe the thought of not having the mental.....oh look, what's this?

Alien Enigma · May 4, 2006

I'm scared of the following: ghosts, crazy people, demons, Satan, mice, rats, touching a fish, frogs, snakes, the unknown, badgers, lions, spiders, quicksand, hornets, wasps, bees, car wrecks, lizards, salamanders, big dogs, geckos, ferrets, pirahnas (I actually caught one, hence my fear of touching a fish), and that's about it I guess.

I forgot to mention slugs.

stormie · May 5, 2006

What scares me? When I become the character in my story (and he/she is a sociopath or psychopath) and I have a hard time getting back to real life. Only kidding. Maybe.

Okay, here's my list:
Tornadoes (and I don't live anywhere near tornado alley).
Lights going out when I'm in the basement. Our basement has crawl spaces and nooks and an old bathroom and those ancient hanging light bulbs.... You get the picture.
Someone tailgating when I'm going ten miles above the speed limit.
A family member getting suddenly very ill.

CaroGirl · May 5, 2006

Power outages in the middle of winter (like 40C below)
Deadly pandemics, where death is everywhere and there's nothing anyone can do about it
Something bad happening to my children
A stranger coming into my home in the middle of the night

BlueTexas · May 8, 2006

Ooh, pandemics is a good one.

My list of nouns?

- bats
- grandmother
- clowns
- dark
- tornado
- Fundamentalism
- strangers

eldragon · May 8, 2006

dying and leaving my kids.

Large, venomous snakes - but I still hunt for them, so it's not a phobia. Hunt for - for curiosity sake - not to kill.

Attics and basements.

Car accidents - but not phobic.

Flying - but I mostly overcame my fear - still - I'd prefer not to.

Enormously out of my budget bills - for phone, cell phone, electricity, etc.

rpl · May 8, 2006

Being buried alive.

Heights.

mrsrgm · May 18, 2006

I'm terrified of tarantulas and tornadoes and live where there are both. I had to laugh at Blue Texas including Fundamentalism! I agree wholeheartedly (got those here, too). I am a strong Christian and was once told that that wasn't possible if I wrote 'Horror'.

Bartholomew · May 18, 2006

Bart's nouns:

Gloom
Dusk
Opaque
Obsidian

Pike · May 18, 2006

I started a blog on this, taking a moment to explore my fears a little deeper in hopes of touching something I can put down on paper that will have people curling up their toes. So far I've got basements and churches, but my list is expanding to include spiders and murder (at my own hands). Stranger things come to mind but not that really hit my h-spot.

Andre_Laurent · May 18, 2006

The idea of dying by fire or water.
That little sound you hear behind you in the dark.

davids · May 18, 2006

Life is not contingent upon me liking it-it just is

BlueTexas · May 18, 2006

mrsrgm said:
I'm terrified of tarantulas and tornadoes and live where there are both. I had to laugh at Blue Texas including Fundamentalism! I agree wholeheartedly (got those here, too). I am a strong Christian and was once told that that wasn't possible if I wrote 'Horror'.

You can't be Christian and write horror? That's absurd. See why I included Fundamentalism, lol?

I just googled Canyon to see where it was, and I bet you have it worse than I do - looks like a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. *sigh* I hope we both make it through storm season, and come up with fantastic story ideas!

ValkyrieRavenfeather · May 20, 2006

I am afraid of:
Heights
Lightning
Bugs
Dark (only when I absolutely can't see)
Open doors

Carole · Jul 16, 2006

stalkers
drums (loud drums give me weird panic attacks)
sirens
stairways (I still run up the stairs to this day in my parents' house if it's nighttime)
silence

NightWynde · Jul 17, 2006

spiders (tarantulas are the worst, but any critter with 8 legs will have me running the other way)
aquariums (not the at home kind with only a betta...I've got one of those in fact, but the kind you visit and pay admission for. Heck, I've even had a panic attack when I was in this maze of aquariums at a pet store).
walking into a cobweb (bad enough I look like an idiot flailing my arms around, but do I have to scream too?)

Elizabeth Slick · Jul 18, 2006

James Buchanan said:
cockroaches
black crickets (the ones that look kinda like cockroaches in cricket form)

Me too! and too many other things to name.

Gillhoughly · Jul 18, 2006

Lists of what scares other people.

Starbrazer · Jul 18, 2006

LOL!

Gillhoughly said:
Lists of what scares other people.

LOL!

What scares you?

breena

James Buchanan

Liam Jackson

Heathen Horde Elder

breena

Liam Jackson

Heathen Horde Elder

bsolah

AW's Resident Commie

CACTUSWENDY

An old, sappy, and happy one.

Alien Enigma

stormie

storm central

CaroGirl

Living the dream

BlueTexas

Back from self-exile land.

eldragon

in a van down by the river

rpl

mrsrgm

Bartholomew

Comic guy

Pike

Chivalry ain't dead

Andre_Laurent

davids

BlueTexas

Back from self-exile land.

ValkyrieRavenfeather

Carole

How 'bout some ether?

NightWynde

Elizabeth Slick

Gillhoughly

Grumpy writer and editor

Starbrazer