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

Posted in Horror on Oct 25, 2022

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“Snakes and a Blue Dress” by Andrew Sweet

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Trigger Warning: Smoking, Violence, Some Cursing, Mythical Creatures, Noirdefenestrate - to throw someone out of a window (Definitions from Oxford Languages)The darkness gets into everything here on the south side. Smoke from my cancer-stick winds its way up into my nose and I stifle the urge to sneeze, admiring my own reflection. A thirty-two year old with clean-cut hair left over from the Marine Corps, same place I got the habit, stares back at me. I’m going to pay some day for those cancer-sticks, but in the world in which I live, dying o...

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“The Window That Could Have Been” by Cake Out

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“The Prince of Rorubur has gifted you a palace, Your Majesty Queen Sophoronia.”The Queen scoffed, “That man… He dares to invade my kingdom after years of our cooperation, then scurries back like a child after a beating. No doubt he requires my assistance once again.”Mary nodded enthusiastically, her gold hair bouncing. She was the Queen’s lady in waiting, young as she may be, and looked up to her like she was the Sun itself.The Queen had grown old, much of the company she had spent her youth with had grown silent, their estates inherited by ...

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“The Choosing Fire” by Jamie Harvey

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The darkness creeping in through the open window threatened to overtake the small room Lux was sitting in. She could see the fire burning from where she sat next to the old grandfather clock that chimed two o’clock. The fire meant the task had already been completed. There would be nothing left to find tomorrow. The only thing left to figure out now was whether she was a widow or not. Peace Wood Hollow, the town just five miles up the road, would be full tomorrow with gawkers trying to figure out who had been chosen.&nbsp...

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“A window salvaged.” by Mustafa Ghani

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“Art should always be placed at eye level,” she said, straightening the piece she had decided upon. “But wouldn’t eye level be different for everyone?” my six-foot-four frame said to her five-foot-three figure. “Don’t overthink it,” she responded. I thought about that while looking at the handmade, salvaged window with ornate shutters my mother snagged from the old city of Peshawar. She hung it above the archway between the kitchen and the living room, well above anyone’s eye level. She and I happened to be in P...

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“Memories & Cigarettes” by Nessa Snow

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It's 5:38 back home right now, but here, I'm staring outside this hotel window, wondering who else is up at 1 am. Is anyone else struggling with jet lag?It's disorienting, at best, how is it still yesterday and somehow also tomorrow? It makes this all naturally super weird.I can't sleep because my knee hurts. This damn weather is bizarre, but I guess that’s London in a nutshell.I really need to rest but I find myself sitting here, staring at this stupid window thinking of you. I know the window is not stupid, I’m just tired.I need to have a ...

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“Fiery toughness, pockets of hope, ready to conquer. ” by Aamina Shajahan

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Fiery toughness, pockets of hope, ready to conquerShe tasted the moonlight on her rosy lips and savored the feeling of heaven and peace. The wind combed the distant hills and howled confessions in empty, lonely plains. Silence exploded, coating walls and door and windows and dust motes. It hung in air, cloaking everything. Her long hair fell loosely around her shoulders like a wave of Black Ocean, glimmering glossy in the dark light. She sat near the intricate window that spread from one end to the other end of her massive room. The rubies a...

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“More Problems” by Udhay .

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The warm summer breeze caresses Adam’s head. He stands beside his bedroom window, bathing in his serenity. The streets before him remain empty, and tranquil. The clock sits at 2AM, and moonlight beams cheerfully. Something, however, isn’t right. It’s deathly silent. Eerily silent. All of a sudden, a darkness begins to form, above Adam’s serenity. His relaxation vanishes. His tranquillity erodes and sense of control becomes pulverised. He looks beyond the street. In the far distance, Adam notices a vast crowd of people, organised perfectly in...

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“The best super hero duo” by Bhavana Shivashankar

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She looked out the window frame and noticed the moon slipping away slowly making way for the warmth of the morning.For a moment, Sarah was so enchanted by the light of the moon and the hundred stars shining bright that she forgot about the darkness. The darkness of the night, of the room, and in her life. For a minute, everything seemed stone-still and pale. The silence lasted only a minute, which was interrupted by the mere-hooting of a tawny tiny owl on a nearby tree.Its large broad head, binocular vision, an upright stance, and sharp talo...

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“Monochrome Witch” by Kaito Ikari

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“Master. What. Is. Outside. Night. But. Bright?”The broken words of her creation gave the young witch pause. Zinnia watched as the ethereal shadow lingered before the circular window of their shared tower, their home and shelter from the world outside.“Nothing you need to concern yourself with, dear. Aren’t you happy here with me?”Snapping its head back (or rather, what would be its head if it had one), the misty blackness seemed rather irritated. An odd emotion, she found, for a creature so devoid of anything human.“Of. Course. But. Curious...

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“The Psychopath” by Prakhar Singh

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Pratik, 31, Senior inspector, sitting in the driver’s seat, looked outside the window of his car in the middle of the night and wondered what happened to the woman that disappeared last night from that neighbourhood. It was raining heavily, making it almost impossible for him and his fellow cops to further investigate the case. He was accompanied by his best friend Ishaan, 30, Sub-inspector and a recently joined constable Aman. Aman volunteered himself for this case because he was concerned about all the recent disappearances and strange mur...

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“Next Door” by Richa Susilo

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Sena opened the window wide. Landed both hands on the bottom window frame and gripped it tightly. Again, take a deep breath. He exhaled with difficulty, as if a large stone had filled his chest cavity, making it difficult for him to breathe. Makes it also unable to close his eyes even though late at night has embraced the earth. The hair on his forehead, which was slightly long, covered his eyebrows, looked messy when the strong night wind hit his face as soon as the window of his room opened. Showing the darkness of the night and the sound ...

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“The Figure ” by Gabriella Miner

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My body shuddered as I looked out my window into the dark abyss of night. My eyes struggled in vain, scouring the street, searching, hoping. Praying the words sent to me weren't true. I see you... Do you see me? I held my phone up to my face again, trying to steady my already shaking hands. Maybe it was a prank, or maybe the person who sent it had the wrong number. At least, that's what I told myself. At least, that's what I so desperately wanted to believe. Ever since I moved into this house strange events have happened to me...

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“Picture Window” by K. A. Bachus

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Picture Window by K.A. Bachus (© 2021) The first time I realized Sobieski wanted to kill me, I was leaning into a double-paned window twenty floors up from a New York street. I rested my forehead on the glass, my eyes on the stream of lights at the bottom of a skyscraper canyon and my psyche in the movement and freedom of people and cars in the darkness. It was the briefest respite from the newly heightened tension of an already stressful job. Sobieski destroyed the moment with a shove and an expletive, pulling the curtains closed wi...

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“The Vigil” by Anna Harris

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Tonight’s full moon is casting so much brilliant blueish tinted light across the valley that if one did not know better, one might almost swear it were daylight. From the kitchen window I can clearly see drystone walls laid out for miles in their dissecting patchwork patterns across the hills and all the way past the next farm’s stone cottage. Unlike here, though, my neighbours have no lit candle on their windowsill, no beacon to guide the way. They await the arrival of no-one. They have gone to bed with aches from the day’s toil and peace o...

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“Her Once in A Lifetime Experience” by Poweful Music

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The trees sway harmoniously; almost in oneness with the nightly breeze. The psithurism of the trees in the breeze was one to be embraced. The sky was richly black, decorated generously with bright white polka dots. The moon was full and it shone mightily as if trying to fight away the darkness of the night. At bird’s eye view she could see him and his partner. He was dressed in his everyday nickel gray uniform, that now looked like a rainbow and always seemed too tight on him. You could tell that it spent ...

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

Submissions are closed

✍️ 340 stories

“Snakes and a Blue Dress” by Andrew Sweet

“The Window That Could Have Been” by Cake Out

“The Choosing Fire” by Jamie Harvey

“A window salvaged.” by Mustafa Ghani

“Memories & Cigarettes” by Nessa Snow

“Fiery toughness, pockets of hope, ready to conquer. ” by Aamina Shajahan

“More Problems” by Udhay .

“The best super hero duo” by Bhavana Shivashankar

“Monochrome Witch” by Kaito Ikari

“The Psychopath” by Prakhar Singh

“Next Door” by Richa Susilo

“The Figure ” by Gabriella Miner

“Picture Window” by K. A. Bachus

“The Vigil” by Anna Harris

“Her Once in A Lifetime Experience” by Poweful Music

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