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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“I Smell Rat” by Lydia Mensah

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#Start your story with a character looking out of a window in the middle of the night # It was so much of a blessing and a joy to see my bed at last; to bask in its warmth and embrace its comfort. Alas! A whole day’s woes to dump on such a poor inanimate object. I wished it could hear my sorrows and my silent pleas! Could it find solutions to my pertinent questions for the day? Oh! But soon I was fast asleep in its arms and did not care a hoot. It had been a long Friday and I was tired and weary from the day’s act...

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“The Looked Window” by Filipe Mendes

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It was night, and Dave Winston was in his bedroom, an opulent room inspired by the French Baroque. The large and luxurious four-poster bed was red with gold curtains and there were a comfortable padded couch in the same style, with red upholstered and the wood lined by gold, that stayed in front of the fireplace. Dave was there too, in front of the fireplace, however not on the couch, but in a wheelchair. He left and rode until the window, a vertical and white glass window, long, large and nearby the ground enough to a person pass through it...

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“Maria ” by Unknown 1

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This is my quiet place. Its peaceful sitting here looking out of the old rotting window into the darkness of the night, with nothing but street lights memorising you from a distance, nothing but the sparkling stars way up high to give you hope for something greater. I long for more moments like these, there's no fear, no hurt, no worries; its just me, my window and the view. I yawn deeply as I wince my eyes at the bright morning sun peering through the window and stretch as I sit to look around the same old warn down attic bedroom. The roo...

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““What a reckless lover”” by Mike Ovie

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Pft! another engulfing moment. I'm out here in my head thinking, and thinking. It's a lot to suppress right now, Jimi. It's 3:00am on a Tuesday morning and I'm about to take a stick from my cigarette pack. I see the full moon from my bed and I can't withstand it. She smiles innocently at my broken soul. I see the soft puffy snowballs dropping gently and there you came into my head. Your memories squeezed in, and now I'm stuck. I see your visions running past the window. It's that favorite time of the year, remember, Jimi? I still feel your...

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“Plate of Cookies” by Emmanuella Ameevor

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I wonder how I must have looked to my unseen eye. Thinking back, if anyone was watching, they would have found it extremely odd to see a skinny brown skinned boy with a pair of binoculars peering out of the window so late in the night. They might say I was spying on the Andrews' girl, Tracy, across the street. I wonder why people of today think that way. It's strange. Anyways, I wasn't spying on the girl across the street. She wasn't even in bed when started my crazy habit. She was out partying. Don't ask me how I know this. Funny thing. My...

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“Rain in Duluth” by Elena Willmot

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The city – if you could call it that – looked rough around the edges in the daylight with a largely crumbling downtown and potholes that would break an axle, but boy, did it sparkle at night. I moved to Duluth, Minnesota a year ago and I still couldn’t get over the expansive view from my small, hilltop house. In the evenings, I liked to sit next to my second floor bedroom window and watch the ships anchored in the bay spin with the winds like little light-up toys. The vast expanse of Lake Superior offered a deep black backdrop to the ships’ ...

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“4am Musings” by Patrick Charron

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I leaned against the cool glass, staring out into the night. A breeze blew in through the open window, a soft, pleasant summer breeze, picking up rose and lavender scents from a nearby patio garden. I had a good view from up here in her fourteenth floor apartment. The children’s park half a block up the street was shrouded in darkness, as were all cars parked on the street below, the never-ending line of street lights interrupted by a faulty bulb. I would have to call the city about that. The building across the way was pitch black. I shou...

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“The Arrival of the Grym” by Reese Blaise

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Aeron watched as the amber light of the blood moon crept above the forest canopy, illuminating his shaggy crop of brown hair. He stood on his tiptoes, peering out into the wooded shadows, waiting for the Grym to appear. Father Feran was busy in the other chamber, preparing for the arrival. “Get away from that window, boy. He’ll be here soon enough and you best be asleep when he arrives,” Feran shouted over the crashing of brass kettles and clay pots as he prepared the lamb stew. Aeron ignored him like he did every year. He waited, keeping ...

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“God's tears...” by Dominique P. Greene

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"GOD'S TEARS" I sit silently looking out of my window pane watching the rain flow. The sound the sight of the rain is such liberating feeling. How I wish I could be one with nature and go outside dance,sing and play in the rain. Mommy said I can't go outside after the street lights come on so I sit silently and watch the rain flow from the beautiful skies. I sit silently and watch the rain flow amongst the trees, grass,flowers and the earth. I sit I look I watch silently from my window pane. I sit and watch as God waters the earth with her t...

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“Burning Man” by Walter Wright

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The house is its own nightclub. Bass-driven music hypnotizes all the young men and women into obnoxious huddles and scenes. I probably fit my own stereotype but I never understood why others fully choose theirs. Shifting through the crowd I see Charlie and Max wearing boat shoes, no socks for some reason, and a size-too-small polo. That’s only on my left. To my right, three girls, who I also went to high school with, wear far too much makeup that glows with each passing of strobe light. Just like in the cafeteria, just like in gym class, the...

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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

“I Smell Rat” by Lydia Mensah

“The Looked Window” by Filipe Mendes

“Maria ” by Unknown 1

““What a reckless lover”” by Mike Ovie

“Plate of Cookies” by Emmanuella Ameevor

“Rain in Duluth” by Elena Willmot

“4am Musings” by Patrick Charron

“The Arrival of the Grym” by Reese Blaise

“God's tears...” by Dominique P. Greene

“Burning Man” by Walter Wright

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

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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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