For They Shall Wait is three short stories of three main characters who are each waiting for something: In the first story, a college-nerd is waiting, desperately, to lose his virginity; in the second story, a young man is waiting to have sex with a girl who won t do it unless their at least engaged; in the final story, an elderly woman is reflecting upon her life, how years ago she killed a man, and how all of the years since, she has waited, and feared, being arrested.