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

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“The Room of Terror” by Joanna Shodipo

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My little brother Barry and I spent every day of summer playing in the fields. It’s not like I wanted to play baby games with my eight year old brother. I’d rather go out into the city and spend the day with my friends. Well, if I had friends. I would have some if Mama let me explore for once. The world isn’t as bad as she makes it out to be. “Found you!” Barry shouted at my face after he spotted me hiding behind a tree. “You’re really bad at this.” He continued. But I wasn’t even trying. He didn’t need to know that though. ...

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“Nightmares” by Puja Ravi

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I see a broken window, glass shattered everywhere. Beside it there is a golden colored paper with a number 1 contrasting from it. All over the situation that is displayed in front of me I see yellow tape lathered around the window with the words “CRIME SCENE - DO NOT ENTER” printed on it with black letters. I notice that the glass is shattered on the ground from the outside. With that information I came to the conclusion that someone was attempting to escape from the inside of this small cottage that the window was attached to. I quickly jot...

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“Insanity of Isolation” by Akra Carras

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I don’t want to be alone. The words echoed through my mind as I peered out the small window that separated me from the rest of the world. Four stone walls formed my prison, not an exit or entrance that I had been able to find in my stay. The window was the only thing that I had, the only glimpse into what was beyond. Stars winked down at me from the great expanse of the sky, but I knew that their reassuring winks would mean nothing, that morning would come and I would be forced to watch the people move back and forth, doing everythin...

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“Gretta's Window” by Caitlin Ball

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Gretta Holland was sixty-three years old when the pandemic hit. The world crisis struck South Korea in February of that year, well before it hit the states. Gretta’s grandson was working as an English teacher there. He had begged Gretta to get an app he could call her on for cheap, but Gretta didn’t like computers for anything more than her card games, and even that she preferred to use real cards for. When Ed made the international call, his voice was tight...

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“a window in time” by Echo Ruben

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The floor is burned, The window is long gone. And now my mind wonders, where did I go wrong? It’s been a while, maybe way too long. But right now? This place seems like a sad song. It’s burned to crisp like me, myself and I. It’s Ironic isn’t it? How time flies by. Seven years of tragedy and despair. But where did you go when you went away? I didn’t see you again. At least not for a while. During the night it’s a different song. Where you’d plague me till the end of time. Where there was supposed to be downtime....

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“Distortion” by Tim Parkins

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Andy pulled the blanket over his head, wrapping himself up like a mummy, despite the warmth of the night. His fists were tightly clenched around the blanket, holding it firmly in place on top of him. Small, salty tears somehow managed to squeeze out through the corners of his eyes, even though he had them squeezed shut so tightly that they ached. “It’s not real, it’s not real…” he repeatedly muttered to himself, over and over. Like he could somehow convince himself if only he repeated it enough times. He tried hard to convince hims...

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“Window of Opportunity” by Ana Lynn

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The crack in the window looked like a wobbly x. It was in that old bleary glass that would be a problem to replace. And the framing was old. She hadn’t broken it, but she would be the one to get it fixed, calling the local guy to fix it, the one who knew these antique houses. Her husband had broken it. She could only imagine he was swatting at the fly like his life depended on it as it danced at the window confused as to why it couldn’t get out. Greens and ham hocks had been simmering. Her mother had always said that the smell of greens c...

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“Echoes and Memories” by A.G Lesley

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Mrs. Grundy stared at the broken bay window in her front room and sighed. The offending baseball was buried in the plush carpet. Large shards of glass lay scattered over the carpet and hardwood and arm chairs and the bay’s bench. Fresh tracks in the snow outside marked it a recent event. Mrs. Grundy leaned down from her wheelchair and picked up the baseball. It probably belonged to the next door neighbor’s boy. He liked to play in the front yard, and Mrs. Grundy didn’t mind. At 75 years old, she was past playing catch, or she’d be ...

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“The Final Escape” by Lauren Eason

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“So, the culprit entered through the kitchen window connecting to the fire escape,” the detective said into his recorder. Bending down, he examined the broken glass scattered around the worn wooden floor. The crime scene photographer placed a numbered card near the evidence and flashed a picture. The detective waved for the young man to follow behind him as he walked throughout the small apartment, taking note of any disturbances. A petite woman sat on a floral sofa in the living room nearby, watching them move around her home. It happen...

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“VinDo” by Kalpana Ramakrishnan

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“Vinny, close your window. I’ve turned on the air conditioner,” said Pops. Wow, the old man had turned on the air conditioner? Pops was not concerned about the cost of the electricity bill? What a treat, I thought sarcastically as I rolled out of bed and walked across the creaking floorboards. The vinyl, single-paned, outswing casement window creaked as I started rolling the plastic crank handle shut. I cursed as the window fought valiantly against my high school pitcher arm strength. It finally gave in as the power of my biceps ove...

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“When It Rains It Pours” by Eloise Stone

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Rain could see her reflection in a puddle. She was waiting to cross the street, but got impatient, so she instead looked down and was unpleasantly surprised to see her own self staring back, those asymmetrically lined eyes shimmering on the shallow surface, a damp reminder of 12 o clock’s showers. She was on her way to meet a friend, well, that’s what she wanted him to be anyway – at this point in time he was a stranger. A stranger sat in the third booth of ‘La Vida Nocturna’, taking sips of a drink he had read about once in an overpriced ma...

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“I'm fainting, I realize.” by Garrett Michael

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I've always been jealous of other people's fingernails. Mine never seem to look right. The skin below the nail is always dry and rough. The nail itself has white patches on them. My cuticles are constantly covering my nail no matter how much I maintain them. In school, I used to look at my classmates' fingernails. I expected someone to have ones like mine. But they never did. Even the boys who hardly ever thought about their nails had better-looking ones. I was distraught. What was I supposed to do? I look at my nails. My middle finger...

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“Fatal Path” by Freya Cullen

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Plumes of dust and moisture radiated from the weathered path as a sudden rush of footsteps disturbed the calm; the scent of petrichor enveloping the desolated street. Today was a holiday. An annual event which saw thousands of citizens flock towards the coast, abandoning the drab inner-cities and flooding the beaches like weeds, taking any available space for themselves and rooting deep into the sand. A lack of people made room for ample opportunity. Entire buildings were painted in shades of coral and pink, which were dappled by the towerin...

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“Shattered Glass” by Mikaela Lewis

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The window shattered with only two strikes of the tire iron. In movies, the storefront always breaks so easily for the assailant—cracking with the throw of a stone or the swing of a hammer. Ruth thought it would be different, like maybe Hollywood had simplified things for the viewer, because no one wanted to watch someone swinging at the glass for thirty minutes. She stood back, pleased, and gave the glass around the edges of the now-demolished pane a couple of kicks with the sharp heel of her hot-pink pointed-toe shoes to remove any broken...

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“Glass In The Feet” by David Zasloff

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Jennifer woke up, flipped the blankets off, put one leg over the edge of the bed, reached down with her foot until it reached the floor, sat up, put her other foot on the floor, stood, and shrieked. Piercing pain in both soles. She sat down and lifted her feet. She heard a light tinkling sound. Robert next to her in bed jerked up to a sitting position. “What? What's wrong?” Clearly, Jennifer's scream had woken him out of a sound sleep – his voice sounded kind of furry. “I don't know, wait a minute.” She looked down and saw glass splinter...

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

Submissions are closed

✍️ 142 stories

“The Room of Terror” by Joanna Shodipo

“Nightmares” by Puja Ravi

“Insanity of Isolation” by Akra Carras

“Gretta's Window” by Caitlin Ball

“a window in time” by Echo Ruben

“Distortion” by Tim Parkins

“Window of Opportunity” by Ana Lynn

“Echoes and Memories” by A.G Lesley

“The Final Escape” by Lauren Eason

“VinDo” by Kalpana Ramakrishnan

“When It Rains It Pours” by Eloise Stone

“I'm fainting, I realize.” by Garrett Michael

“Fatal Path” by Freya Cullen

“Shattered Glass” by Mikaela Lewis

“Glass In The Feet” by David Zasloff

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Start your story with a character looking out of a window in the middle of the night.

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Start your story with an unexpected knock on a window.

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

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