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

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“The Windows To The Soul” by Katharine Widdows

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(Trigger warning: alcoholism, car crash, murder.).............................................................................................The stooping woman brushed a few wild white hairs from her wrinkled face and fought to contain them behind one arm of her heavy spectacles. She gestured unsteadily towards a set of bottles and whiskey glasses on a table in a dark corner of the room.‘Can I offer you a drink?’Ben cleared his throat and looked away.‘Some people find it helps.’ She said, shuffling towards the liquor and offering a thin smi...

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“The Old Cooper Place” by David Dicaire

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The rag tag ball team stood there and looked over the fence at the broken window. It wasn’t just any old broken window it belonged to that of the old Cooper house, the most haunted place in the entire planet, probably the whole universe. Igor, the newest member of the Kemptville Mud Hens (the official/unofficial name of the team) stood at the fence with the others, but didn’t understand what was truly going on. “Why does someone not get the ball?” They all looked at him and half-laughed and half-guffawed. “Igor, this place- “Is rea...

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“24 Oak Drive” by Megan Skaggs

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Kids will kids. That’s the saying, isn’t it? Cassie gulped hard, swallowing the burning anger that had been rising from the pit of her stomach. Turning the baseball over in her hand, she walked over to inspect the damage. Glass crunched under her well-worn espadrilles. The warm summer air was being forcefully sucked into the room through the hole now adorning the bottom corner of her privacy-tinted picture window. The forced air caused the sheers to do a small dance, and she longed to feel that breeze on her face. Carefully, she si...

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“Pressure Release” by Ian Mitchell

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Charlie woke up with a start. She sat up on the couch and looked at the kitchen, the source of the sound. “Holy crap!” she shouted. The kitchen was covered in lemon basil chicken. And glass. “Wha-?” she asked, trying to figure out the source of the glass. Oh, right, the window. The pressure cooker’s lid had gone clear through the window, shattering it all over her kitchen and dining room. And probably the street below. She really hoped that no one had been under that. And a morbid part of her won...

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“Three Broken Windows” by Ana Ahuja

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TW: murder I woke up with a headache. Something felt weird. Something was off. As I looked around, nothing seemed to be different. Except for one thing. There was a broken window. It looked like it had been hit with a heavy object, maybe a rock. I decided maybe it had been the wind, so I moved on. I got up and started getting ready for school. When I got out, it was already 8:15, which was very late, but my mom hadn’t started yelling. Something was definitely off. I walked downstairs and couldn’t hear a single noise. “Mom...

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“Hebrews 13: 1-2” by Vincent Guillemin

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[Note: This is linked to" Microcosm" # 15. ]The sound of crushed glass under his feet cuts Lou off of daydreaming. A single broken pane with jagged glass teeth around the frame and room enough for an arm to slide in and reach for the handle. But the window is shut. " Might be a trick. The fucker could still be inside". He feels a lump constricting his throat and his mind quickly races back to the image of the man shuffling his battered boots out of the city. When their eyes met, Lou felt as if shards of ice pried open the windows of his...

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“Abraxas” by Mike Garrigan

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The sun had not yet roared into the sky. A Mapleton City Police cruiser rushed along on Chisholm Chapel Road. Sarge drove. Denny rode shotgun. Sarge smoothed his thick mustache with his thumb. Denny reached around his side to itch his back fat. The sun began to push reds and oranges through the blue morning horizon. “She didn’t see who broke it?” Denny asked.“Didn’t say. She was pretty upset,” Sarge said.Sunlight began to creep over the trees. Sarge and Denny put on aviators, almost simultaneously. A beam of light hit a nick on the...

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“Sticks and Stones” by Sloane Sanders

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“Hey honey, would you be able to run into town to grab some chicken, steak, and beer for tonight? Ben called to his wife Hannah, who was just getting in from her jog with their dog Tex. “Yeah sure,” she said “Do you want me to make anything else? I can make that macaroni salad and a dessert of some kind… maybe my Oreo fluff?” She grabbed a pen off the counter and started writing a list. &nb...

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“The Past and Future Haunting of Becksworth Mansion” by Matthew McLean

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The clatter the accident caused was a magnificent noise, the shattering of the window reverberating throughout the neighborhood. Every child playing stickball in the street groaned, except for Hal. Hal’s mouth hung open in stupefied horror, watching the last few pieces of shattered glass hold onto the window frame that sat in the Becksworth mansion. The home would only be called a mansion by children, three stories tall and bristling with peaked roofs and dormers. But standing behind its wrought iron fence and neglected brown lawn of scrub...

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“Beyond the Window” by Hritesh Mishra

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Will it get any better? There’s a point in our lives when we ask ourselves this question. You see a faint ray of hope. For a brief moment, it isn’t a pipe dream anymore. Beyond all those possibilities and what-ifs, you can see what it holds. But then, life goes on....I’m startled by the sound of glass smashing. Something broke the windowpane. I look around and see it lying on the floor. My heart races as I try to focus on it. It’s a tennis ball. Regaining my calm, I get up from my bed.Morning sunlight shimmers on the cracks around the h...

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“The Tower” by Anna Tishchenko

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It stood, menacing in the gloom of the overgrown garden. The tower that love had built was now abandoned, forlorn. No one would come to visit now that the building was empty and full of shadows. Once it had been beautiful, grand and majestic, painted white and gold with splashes of green vine, and red flowers. Once, it held life, and joy and hope. Now after so many years it has taken on a new feel, one of bitterness, loneliness, even fear. No one went near it anymore and in the absence of love it had soured. &nb...

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“The Doggie in the Window” by Michael Woods

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How much is that doggie in the window? I thought, when we first laid eyes on him at the pet store. Well, I actually spoke this thought out loud to my wife (knowing that it was the title of a children's song written back in 1952 to annoy her) but she just laughed and rolled her eyes at me. But truly, it was love at first sight and we bought him on the spot.Blue. That was the name we gave him. Now you may ask...why Blue? Was it because he had some fascination with the color? No. Was it because he liked looking up at a blue sky? No. We decided ...

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“About Earths.” by Roopa De Choudhury

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I enter the cylindrical hall and there they are, all fifty of them, identical frosted glass windows, similar in all aspects, but one. The trigger for the bomb on my Earth could be hidden on any of these forty nine other Earths, accessed through the identical windows. Once I retrieve the trigger, I will save my Earth. The nuclear blast is supposed to take place in five hours, which means I have six minutes to go through each window, enter that Earth and find the trigger. Samira sits down, exhausted at the sheer enormity of the project....

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“Coming Home” by Joe Swanson

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All the overly stated cautions come to mind when your eyes first see the vacant opening in the door, and its shattered remains scattered about the floor. Burglary, vandals, fear, anger, the violation of our sanctity, all the emotional upheaval we experience, and yet there is no solid evidence to back up any of our initial assumptions. The cause for the condition of the door, and the glass pane that once was, and is no more, manages our immediate response.I can only assume it is the shock of the change in normalcy, that brings...

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“Man In White” by Emily Waldner

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It was a bomb. Not a particularly big one, but one big enough to shatter a window. The war had been going on for a couple of years. People had to move every few days because of bombs destroying their new place of shelter. Even if it wasn’t a house, eventually, they knew, it would be destroyed. Charity’s family had thought they would have been able to survive underground with the millions of others taking refuge. In the year of 2089, the war hit. There were people who had predicted this and gone underground. By the time the bombs came...

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

Submissions are closed

✍️ 142 stories

“The Windows To The Soul” by Katharine Widdows

“The Old Cooper Place” by David Dicaire

“24 Oak Drive” by Megan Skaggs

“Pressure Release” by Ian Mitchell

“Three Broken Windows” by Ana Ahuja

“Hebrews 13: 1-2” by Vincent Guillemin

“Abraxas” by Mike Garrigan

“Sticks and Stones” by Sloane Sanders

“The Past and Future Haunting of Becksworth Mansion” by Matthew McLean

“Beyond the Window” by Hritesh Mishra

“The Tower” by Anna Tishchenko

“The Doggie in the Window” by Michael Woods

“About Earths.” by Roopa De Choudhury

“Coming Home” by Joe Swanson

“Man In White” by Emily Waldner

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