Write a story in which a window is broken or found broken.

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“Healing the cracks” by Charlene 🧙‍♀️✨ Boyce

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Bella bobbed along the path, counting roots. She had picked some berries, and eaten some berries, and then picked some wildflowers. At some point, the path she was following became forest. Bright yellow mushrooms drew her eye, and then feathery ferns. She heard a rustling in the trees above and a hoot. She looked up, surprised to see it was getting dark. Suddenly, nothing looked familiar. Her chin trembled and tears welled. Katrina never would have let her wander so far away, but Katrina was gone and Mommy said she wasn't coming ba...

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“Stained. ” by Demmy De Luna

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Stained. - A piece on Religious Trauma and LGBTQ+ Glass had littered the floor. Bits and pieces of a beautiful stained glass window, once a depiction of God, now shattered and left to become dust amongst the ground of the alter. He stands there for what felt like eternity. He stared, and stared, and stared. His eyes bleeding into the makeshift hole that his fist left behind within the portrait. He remembers reading about this image, he thought. The one story about how the shepherd lost his lamb, and that of a holy being appeared ...

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“Appetite For Destruction” by Annalisa D.

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How does anyone really know who they are? With all the pressures of society, family, and peers, it’s hard to weed out what things would genuinely be there without all the chatter. People would describe me as polite, nice, traditional, trustworthy, goody two shoes, prude, clean-cut, boring, and any similar type of words. I was the stereotypical good girl. It’s not a bad way to be. The thing is, inside I didn’t feel that way. Inside I felt a roaring fire tearing down everything in its path. I played my part though. Got good grade...

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“Shards” by Kayley Dickins

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He had, admittedly, seen glass break many times before; soapy hands dropping glasses on the floor, test tubes in a science lab filled with rowdy children, and naturally windows being broken. Sometimes by bullets, sometimes by bodies, sometimes by bomb blasts. But there was something about watching it happen again this time that caught his breath. It might have been the sunlight, or it might have just been the angle at which he was standing. He couldn’t decide, he rather suspected it was just a combination of the two. It struck him as...

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“The Window Watcher” by Sara M

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It's not a veil, really. Not the way people think it is. It's a pane of glass, about the size of one of the portraits hanging in the throne room upstairs. It's perfectly smooth and freezing to the touch, nestled in a tiny room just below the dungeons, a chip of ice in the belly of the sprawling castle. There's no fingerprints, no smudges. No way to leave a mark. If there was, it would’ve been coated in them. I press my hand to it now, the palm, then the back, the cold refreshing in the stale air. &nbsp...

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“The Mansion” by Marie McLaughlin

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It was a beautiful summer day in upstate new york, 1949. A group of kids from the neighborhood walked to the end of a Cul-De-Sac. "Hey, Timmy, wanna play Stickball?" "Sure! Let's go to the vacant lot!" Timmy replied. So the children went to the empty patch of land in a field by the Cul-De-Sac where a Barn used to stand before the Barn and the Farm had burned down in a fire. The neighborhood kids called this empty patch of land the "Vacant Lot" and had used it as their personal play area ever since. Danny the Pitcher got into po...

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“2. Broken windows and broken lives.” by A. Kangiser

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Donny’s footsteps fade away into the night as the house continues to burn. Jebediah lay there a few minutes more on the ground before standing to dust himself off. His ribs are sore from the fall and the few pellets that struck him from the shotgun blast. Fortunately, nothing feels broken. Glancing about, he takes in the scene.All around the yard lie the burning debris, flames fluttering in the wind. The country home he had called his own for the past few months is half standing, half devastated. It looks like part of it simply fell away and...

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“Corey's Pieces ” by Marianna Mills

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"Ouch, darn, I'd better clean this mess up. Someone must havetried to break in here." Grundging out the words to himself, as he entered the old abandoned house on THAT day.....it was his divorce date. Two years passed now. She wanted him to sell the place, so she could pay for her lifestyle, which was modest but comfortable. Corey managed to work as a mechanic, long arduous hours, but it paid well enough. Myrna worked at the department store, managing the kids clothing section, a job she loathed but....whatever, she was good enough, she lo...

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“The experience” by Beth Murray

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"Okay the window is off the track Antonia, do you know how to fix that?" asked his mother; Hattie. "Yes mam, I thought you had grocery shopping to do?" said Antonia. "Oh yes, but I have to mop this floor, dust the living room, and mend your Father's church suit first." That seemed like a wonderful opportunity for Antonia to pitch in and help his mother. "That's ok Mom, you take the kids with you to the grocery store, and I got all this." Hattie accepted, she knew her son very well. Responsibility, sufficiency, and accomplishments were his ni...

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“Broken Artwork, and Chocolate Chip Cookies” by London Finley

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Noah stared at the glass that now covered the canvas. Six hours of work ruined, his bedroom window now broken, glass is everywhere. Noah ran a hand through his hair. He would have to start his painting all over again as glass fragments stuck to the wet paint. But for now, one question rang through his mind. What broke the window? His eyes scanned through the room before landing on a tennis ball. Noah immediately knew who broke it. Jonathan. And just as his boyfriend's name popped in Noah’s mind, this door to his ...

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“Dear Sam” by Gerald Daniels

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Dear Sam. I know you've got a lot on your plate at the moment, especially given everything that's been going on in the world. I don't expect you to give a response to my message, it's good enough to know that you're listening and you'll take my thoughts as seriously as ever. I would really appreciate it if you might be able to find the time to get back to me though, given everything that's happened. I have to say it feels quite liberating to know that y...

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“Wine” by Sandra Claros

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- look at it! Sleeping on the table, with that disjointed window that keeps opening from one side to the other! - Asserted the 60-year-old Blessed Bertita, with an unknown face due to the veil that had never been removed from her. - Do not deny because to deny is a sin! - The priest of the chapel replied, yawning, with the chalice of holy wine in her hand, from which she sipped little by little, while she laughed. "Surely you must already be canonized as holy as you are," she said...

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“The Sky Demon” by Lee Kendrick

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The Sky DemonAs Tom looked out of the bedroom window, he saw one of its hinges had broken. Leaving the hinges for a moment, he turned his attention to three miles away, to the beautiful English village of Bridgeminster, with a population of just fifty-five. His wife, Lucy, was visiting her mother there in her Mini Cooper; and would probably be there soon. Because their house was higher up on a hill, Tom had a good vantage point, and, w...

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“The window to death” by Prathna Kukreja

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Patricka had hust moved towards the countryside to her new home with her parents and one elder brother. She was a timid type of girl, always day dreaming about her passion-Dance. She was loving her new house, actually you can say it was a mansion beautifully decorated. Her favourite place was the window of her room. She had just got a beautiful mushroom shaped night-lamp for her study table which she had just placed near her window. She sat there and imagined herself dancing to the hip-hop tunes. She also was a great artist, as in sketching ...

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“The Robbed Cafe” by Raquel Pokiak

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I awake to the sound of glass shattering from my cafe downstairs. No louder than a plate slipping from someone's hands, crashing to the floor. Struggling to get out from my heavy blankets, I grab the small metal bat that my father gave me after telling him I was going to start my cafe. My grip around it trembles. I pause, maybe I had dreamt the sound? My hopes are cut off by light footprints treading downstairs. Then I had been so determined to set off on my ...

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Write a story in which a window is broken or found broken.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 142 stories

“Healing the cracks” by Charlene 🧙‍♀️✨ Boyce

“Stained. ” by Demmy De Luna

“Appetite For Destruction” by Annalisa D.

“Shards” by Kayley Dickins

“The Window Watcher” by Sara M

“The Mansion” by Marie McLaughlin

“2. Broken windows and broken lives.” by A. Kangiser

“Corey's Pieces ” by Marianna Mills

“The experience” by Beth Murray

“Broken Artwork, and Chocolate Chip Cookies” by London Finley

“Dear Sam” by Gerald Daniels

“Wine” by Sandra Claros

“The Sky Demon” by Lee Kendrick

“The window to death” by Prathna Kukreja

“The Robbed Cafe” by Raquel Pokiak

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Set your story within a window of opportunity, when a character finally has the chance to do something.

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