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Write a story that takes place in a waiting room.

Posted in Thriller and Suspense on Oct 26, 2022

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“The Waiting Room” by Amanda Urban

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The sirens were deafening and the flashing lights blinding. I was having a horrible time running in my heels. I followed the paramedics as quickly as I could through the hospital doors. The tears blurred my vision. My throat hurt but I didn’t really know what I was yelling. I didn’t know what the staff were yelling at me either. All I knew was my Stephen was headed into the hospital with tubes and machines making him live when we were supposed to be having dessert.  “Mrs. Cunningham? Could you come with me please? We need some informat...

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“The Ethereal” by Max Bell

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I sat in solace in the waiting room of the transport ship. Sitting on the chairs, holding the overhead handles. We were traveling to the moon, although our ship, the Ethereal broke down and we had to ask for some help. the passengers, calmly waiting as I am started to talk. One spoke, “What are all y’all business at the moon? Mining? Adventuring? Or just to get away from earth for awhile?” “Well a bit of both actually.” I said. “I’m fed up with earth, it same old cities and cars. nothing seems to progress there. Yesterday I got a job offer...

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“The Emergency Room for Magical Mishaps” by Carl North

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               Sara didn’t want to wait in the waiting room. She hated waiting. It was the most boring thing ever. But she wasn’t allowed in the doctor’s office, being a non-magical person and all. So after checking her brother into the Emergency Room for Magical Mishaps, she had to take a seat in the waiting room and wait. She hated waiting. No, she detested waiting, especially when her brother had done something stupid and broken his arm and now she had to wait for ...

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“MEETING IN A WAITING ROOM” by SHOMA CHATTERJI

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The train I was supposed to get on had been cancelled because of the heavy rains and thunder in the small village she had come to. The station was quite far away from where this small station stood. The station was small and only two trains ran from this small village called Keyaphuli to Kolkata everyday. They were distanced by ten or twelve hours and if you missed a train to Kolkata, and your place of residence was far away, you had no choice but to stay on in the waiting room till the next train arrived ten hours later. The station was de...

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“3 minutes” by Sufyan Salman

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 I remember the sharp tinge of a cigarette infiltrating my nostrils; flooding my mind with a numbness that releases floods of ecstasy and relief into my blood. Maybe it’s not the same as the morphine that will seep into my body if I go through with this. Maybe it’s not the same as the rush and the harrowing feel of my heart beat drumming in my ears, in my mouth, in my stomach, in my chest when I inject myself with a syringe; slowly watching the heroin disappear into my veins. Maybe it’s not the same.  Maybe I don’t want it to be. &...

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“Wading Room” by Joseph Lombardi

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I close my eyes and out stretches before me a shallow, placid pool. I can look down and see through the surface of the water as if it were transparent. My feet touch the bottom of the pool while I continue to sit on my chair. Certainly it’s not deep here. I imagine myself getting up and moving towards the center of the room where I’d find myself inevitably wading deeper and deeper over gray, rocky outcrops.  A nibble on my leg draws my attention to a fantastic little creature circling around my salty pylons. Golden yellow with fins an...

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“1 Hour” by Andrea Aguilar

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I'd arrived about 15 minutes earlier. I sat there, waiting, while my leg was jumping up and down like trying to tell me it wanted to go for a walk, or maybe a run. First, I wanted to ignore it, but seeing it jump in front of me was so distracting, so I tried to shush it, like that would make it understand that we had to keep it down. Suddenly I got a call from my son, Adam.  “Hey, bud! What’s going on?” “Nothing dad. Just wondering hoy you’re doing. Are you coming home soon? Mom wants to eat out before packing.” “Oh…yeah, sure! I’m j...

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“The Secretary ” by ♡ Tana ♡

Submitted to Contest #49

The secretary had learned to make herself invisible. Not literally of course, if anyone cared to look they would see her, but no one ever bothered too. She sat quietly behind her desk, handed out paperwork, and gave out ‘hellos’ and ‘goodbyes’ and ‘sign here’s’ like the peppermints she kept in a mug on her desk.  She didn’t realize that she was invisible until she had been working for two years, and realized that people didn’t meet her eyes when she talked to them. Instead they seemed to look right through her, like she was insubst...

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“Perspective” by Sadie Bell

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Jack fingered the worn corners of his magazine, some outdated home-and-garden edition that would have embarrassed the most adorable of 80s’ kitsch. He had made the mistake of choosing a seat directly facing the only clock in the room. It grinned at him like a Cheshire cat on Schadenfreude, only too pleased with itself in reminding him of the minutes of life that were wasting away. A waiting room without windows should be illegal, he thought behind grit teeth. The name was certainly being put to the test; he’d waited nearly an hour and a half...

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“Waiting Room” by Sarah Grace

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Waiting room. I hate how they call it that. If there is a scheduled appointment, there should be no need to wait. If I had the audacity to show up later than thirty seconds past my appointment time, I would have to deal with the snarky receptionist telling me that I missed my chance, that I would need to reschedule. The doctor can run late, always runs late, but the patients must have patience.  My derriere is growing numb, sitting on this hard plastic chair. I wonder how many other posteriors have graced this exact spot, all of us shi...

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“The Great Indian Talks” by Arcane Brinson

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The train stopped with a jerk. The passengers have already made a line and now they hurriedly deboarded the train. I was not anxious to leave as I knew that the train won’t move for it was its last stop. So I sat there until only a few passengers were left. I looked at my watch, it was 10:30 pm. I picked up my handbag and dawdled through the empty blue coach. This Indian Train, sorry but I don’t remember its name, was quite amazing and comfortable to travel in. Also, there were these amazing Indian peoples to talk with. As I got of...

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“The Line” by Matthew J

Submitted to Contest #49

Jean-Baptiste Campignon waited not because he wanted to, but because he was told to. He supposed those in the snaking line around him waited for the same reason, but he dared not ask. It might disrupt the delicate equilibrium of the system which already moved with such practiced glaciality that any irregularity was liable to bring it to a grinding halt. No one talked, and that was fine. There was no need for talking. Jean-Baptiste preferred it that way.Jean-Baptiste thirsted for much of his time in this particular line, and a vague awareness...

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“The Orientation” by Sophia Archontis

Submitted to Contest #49

Morgan parked her car a few blocks away from the building. She was too early, so she parked far enough away to give herself some time to walk and think. It was summer, late July, and even though it was early in the morning the air felt sticky and too thick to breathe. Morgan could see the building in the distance. It was a weird color, a kind of orange, and the edges seemed to shimmer slightly in the pale light. She wondered what would happen when she got there. She didn’t have much information on the job itself, only a slightly cryptic ...

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“Live up to your Dream!” by Payal !!

Submitted to Contest #49

A young girl with flaunting brown hair that would attract everyone to her, named Riya sat in the waiting room impatiently waiting for a call-back. She was paranoid that why was her boss so rude to her about punctuality. Why wouldn’t her boss call her at sharp 12 ‘o’ clock? She just couldn’t wait any longer. Then she got really angry however she needed the job badly because she lived alone, so she decided to wait until her chance. Riya waited and waited and dozed off to a deep sleep. The next moment she was awoken by the Receptionist she real...

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“The Elevator Eye” by Sarah O'Grady

Submitted to Contest #49

‘Oh, sorry!’ I awkwardly mouth to the old lady doing her knitting. I had just slapped my book down on the chair next to me for what must have been the fifth time since coming here. Usually I find murders and such quite interesting and gripping. In A&E? Not so much. The knowledge that everyone around you is undoubtably doing the elevator look on me; when you look someone top to bottom and then bottom to top, to try and decipher my so-called ailment. ‘Legs? No, they appear normal. Car crash? Nah too Holby City. Face messed up? Nope, two ey...

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