# A Story Start for Your Judgement - The Horror at Cecil Cove (with FAQ) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 28, 2000, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945 "2000-11-28T00:10:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/21 "2000-11-28T04:38:03Z")
A note to those who are not of the Ozarks - Cecil Cove and Cecil Creek and Erbie are all **real** places, located where they are in the story. And yes, I have been there several times. ---
**Author:** ![Kerrigan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/49beb7/32.png) [@Kerrigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kerrigan)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/22 "2000-11-28T05:26:31Z")
_shameless plug_ So…whatcha think, doesn’t “Kerrigan” remind you of someone famous and [apparently] talented whose last name you could just not leave OUT of your story…? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/23 "2000-11-28T07:16:17Z")
I think I shall give up writing in your honor. I am slime next to works such as this. I doubt seriously you could fit me in, but hey, I’m game. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/24 "2000-11-28T07:55:24Z")
> [@](#): > > You haven’t said “eldritch” even once, and nothing’s oozing or shimmering. “You can tell it’s Lovecraftian, because I use the word ‘cyclopian’ in it.” -Neil Gaiman I, for one, am rapt, and eagerly await the next installment. As my handle doesn’t especially lend itself to the actual naming of a character, there’s probably no point in releasing it for your use. All the same, if’n you find you can use it, you’re certainly welcome. ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/25 "2000-11-28T07:57:42Z")
Cool beans, Dudette! Can I be a dead body? Ask anyone who knows me–I’d make an _excellent_dead body. ---
**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/26 "2000-11-28T08:06:46Z")
Loved it! Give us more! And if Una happens to meet a piano player named Willie in a seedy dance hall, and bribe him for information, the real honkytonk willie would be honored. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/27 "2000-11-28T13:20:59Z")
Great Story Anth… it’s vrey very interesting! Am I the only one that is expecting Homer to start tap dancing at some stage?? 😉 Una, Excelscior!! ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/28 "2000-11-28T13:30:54Z")
That was wonderful, Anthracite. I’m totally intruigued, and would _really_ love to read the next installment. Oh, and don’t you think Lucretia is, oh, I don’t know, kinda mysterious, in a sinister sort of way? People tell me that all the time. Really. ---
**Author:** ![Bawdysurfer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90db22/32.png) [@Bawdysurfer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bawdysurfer)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/29 "2000-11-28T14:49:14Z")
Good woman, thus far there are measures of pith and tooth to your weavings. With your inclusions that help to `hook` the locals, the potential is only constrained by time, desire, the effectiveness of wayward goading, and the like. Let that creatively lubricated noggin loose. Huzzah! ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/30 "2000-11-28T15:33:02Z")
This is great! Why do I get the feeling your depiction of Ed Zotti isn’t all that far off the mark (although I’ve heard he’s only in his early hundreds…) And you’ve made Homer sound positively erudite compared to some of his recent posts 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/31 "2000-11-28T15:42:01Z")
\ "please, Ma’am, may I have more? \ …uh, we’re not seeing Inbred Jed from the White House in Ark, are we?? ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/32 "2000-11-28T17:13:11Z")
So good!! Where do i send my money for the next chapter? ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/33 "2000-11-28T18:02:55Z")
OK, OK. I’ll start work on re-writing the parts I already have done, so I can post sometime in a week or so. Maybe I can serialize it, I don’t know. Of course, I am going on that big trip soon, so that might mess me up as well. I can write a bit on the flights tho. ---
**Author:** ![ThreeLeggedBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ThreeLeggedBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThreeLeggedBob)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/34 "2000-11-28T19:19:29Z")
Like it a lot. Keep going! ## TLB Necronomicons! Get your Necronomicons! Can’t raise a ghastly, nameless, indescribable, aeons-old abomination without a Necronomicon! Step right up! Genuine leather! Necronomicons! Cash and carry only, please. Necronomicons! ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/35 "2000-11-28T19:44:22Z")
I can’t wait to see more of this. You can use my name if you want to. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/36 "2000-11-29T00:09:04Z")
this story is one of the coolest things i have ever read. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/37 "2000-11-29T13:28:43Z")
Thank you for the nice words, guys! Wow - did 330-some Dopers actually read this little story start? Very flattering indeed! I’ve started on the next segment. And decided as something to help calm me during my big trip (oh jeeze…only 6 more days!) and keep me “connected” to the SDMB, to keep writing while I’m overseas. Una ---
**Author:** ![Kestral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kestral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kestral)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/38 "2001-04-18T13:58:46Z")
This is the kind of thing that keeps me coming back to this board. Wonderful work, I wish I wrote half as well as some of you people do. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/39 "2001-04-18T14:08:10Z")
I’m totally and completely hooked. Can’t wait for the next installment. Have fun on your trip. ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945/40 "2001-04-18T16:01:12Z")
Sweet mother of … That was awesome. Keep up the good work. I can’t wait to see what happens next. Oh, and you don’t have to use my name. Wolverine doesn’t fit right for the area. But if you go anywhere north, say Canada or Michigan, I fully expect to be there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-story-start-for-your-judgement-the-horror-at-cecil-cove-with-faq/42945.md?page=3)