Five relative strangers find themselves alone together in an out of the way Waffle House on the wrong side of a highway exit that everyone forgot less than an hour before midnight, when one of them snaps and goes crazy.

This story chronicles the events in the five character’s lives that led them up to this point. One character, a harried middle aged business man on a long drive for work stopped at the restaurant, desperate for food at any place with a light on. The only other customers, a college aged boy and girl, stopped there for food on the way to a midnight showing, their first date. The last waitress, only there to close up, shouldn’t even have been working. She naively agreed to cover the shift of a young girl who took advantage of her far too often. The fifth person, the cook, would rather be at work than at home with his overbearing, cheating wife.

While each of them has their own reasons, only one of them hits the breaking point.

About the Author

Amber was raised in a small town Tennessee. She’s been a book lover since kindergarten, and an aspiring author since her undergraduate years at NYU, but she’s just now finally making her way into the writing world. Now, Amber attends graduate school at UCSD in San Diego and, when she’s not TAing, doing coursework, or working on research, she’s fostering the universes waiting to move from her mind to the paper.

Notes

Thank you for checking out my draft!

This idea came to me in a similar situation - my and my husband’s first date. As we sat in a Waffle House, grabbing food on the way to a movie, I couldn’t help but notice the ’horror movie’-ness of it all. I’d love to here wh

-Amber