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

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“"Attaboy"” by Lucky Loxley

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It was 2 hours till the middle of the night. Not a soul in sight. It was the perfect time to do my plan. As I stared out the window, with only one thought in my mind, I saw the true me staring back. Someone with disheveled hair. A psychotic smile. I began to wonder who I was really. I told you we shouldn’t have done this prank” I said breathily, my heart beat increasing. My friend just stared at the ground, where the bloody body lay. It wasn’t supposed to end like this.. Why did I have to be so stupid? Now, our lives are going to be rui...

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“Light of The Moon” by Shae Dandridge

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The moonlight caressed her face, outlining the sharp perk of her nose and the curve of her eyes, brushing the freckles that were splattered across her cheeks. The wind ran through her tousled hair as it made its way into the already cold attic. Momentarily, she looked like the fifteen-year-old that I had last seen leaning on the windowsill, telling me she was going to California.“There are better acting gigs there, you know.” She had said, her eyes sparkling. “More opportunities. Definitely better to be an aspiring actor in San Francisco tha...

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“Outside My Window: Last Chance” by Mack Denver

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Steve Johnson was looking outside his window. There was no joy left inside of him anymore. It had only been seven hours since his son’s funeral. It was the middle of the night, and Steve did not like the dark, for he did not like not being able to see. The funeral had seemed so unreal, yet it had also seemed empty. Steve felt empty. He felt like everything had been taken from him. Nether his voice nor his brain seemed to want to work. He went into his room and sat down at his computer. He found an old game he used to play and started to down...

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“Middle of Destiny” by Joe Swanson

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There is something about the rain knocking on your window in the black of night. As I peer through the glass, droplets streaming down its invisible surface, give me a sense of being in that place where life has stopped, the world is standing chastised in the corner. All cares and worry have been washed away. Each drop sliding down the glass carrying with it…? You know that lyric, “Take the dark out of the night time and paint the day time black.” Some nights feel like that. But when you take out the dark, what’s left...

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“Repentance ” by Marianna Mills

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I looked solemnly out at the large window in the room, in which I will live for the next 8 months of my life, it was the only solution. After finding out the test results, I had gone to my father who arranged it all, secretly, shamefully. Having a father who was Pastor of a small church did not allow for such error, only, except, I am human. Is my God so cruel that I could not resist temptation of the boy I loved? You see, my mother passed away when I was small, leaving my father to raise me and the housekeeper, Mary Beth, so I spent a lot o...

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“Snapped” by Miranda Klapheke

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Trigger warning: alcohol induced abuse and murder.It was a restless night as I sat at the edge of the bed and stared out of my window and into the night. It was late but I was awake. I looked over to the garden and was happy to see it rain. It had been a while since we had a good rain and it was bringing life to the flowers. Soon they would flourish and bring a fresh scent to the air. The yard was beginning to form puddles like it did the night of the accident. An accident that was made subconsciously in a moment of anger. I snapped. My...

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“Broken as a Pane of Glass” by Josh C

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Thunder clapped, and Joel jumped as two aimless bolts of lightning lanced across the sky, illuminating the small apartment through the broken window. A gust blew through the hole in the glass, water dripping from two dagger-like shards hanging from the top of the frame. How long had it been like that? 3 days? A week? Joel quickly grabbed the piece of tarp he had been using as a temporary barrier and hung it in place, then walked over to the fridge. On the sea of judgmental, unchecked items on his to-do list, he found it.Get glass replaced. T...

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“Ethereal Night” by Ioana Mareta

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It was a beautiful summer night, with a clear sky and bright stars showering the empty streets with a tender light. Beatrice was sitting on the windowsill of her chamber, waiting for midnight. She turned off the lights and was looking up at the sky, counting stars until she reached 20, the birthday she was so eager to celebrate for herself in a few minutes. She has already dressed in her nightgown and was hugging a pillow, thinking of how she could spend the next day. She looked on the wall opposite her at the clock: five more minutes until ...

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“Endless Forest ” by Yvette F

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It is said that there are 5 stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. They look different for everyone, and many become stuck on one stage for long periods of time, or for others, it becomes an endless cycle that you have no control over. A never-ending cycle that consumes you and leaves you feeling nothing and empty all over again once it is completed. I woke up once again at exactly 3:40 a.m. with a shiver of fear running through my body as I tried to gasp for a bre...

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“For My Dream” by Muhammad Hamza Suleman

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What was it like to step outside? Omisha pressed her cheek against the cool window sill, just as she did for the past twenty-years when the clock struck twelve, staring through her faint yet pale reflection out into the black. Was it what they called the night? Where were the stars? The moon? Not that she ever saw them. She only ever read about them in a book. Air seeped through the gaps, cold and chilly as it caressed her tender flesh. Omisha pulled back the sleeves of her white dress, exposing the numerous scars all over her arm. From cuts...

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“Wrong Window” by Bharathi Raja R

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It was a hot dark summer night. I was chatting with multiple people at the same time, as I always do post midnight on almost all days. I always sit facing the window in my room. I was juggling between multiple windows on my Windows laptop and was looking out of my window every now and then as a reflex whenever I had to think about something. “Oops… Wrong Window!” is the bottom most unread message in my Messenger window. That made me curious about the previous message. Aditya Kumar (Twitter ID: xxx, Facebook ID: xxx) Sai Babu (Twitter ID...

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“Sammy's Window” by Lilian Mbithe

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Sammy sat absent-mindedly on the old brown study table near his window, he held a cup of coffee in his right hand. His gaze was focused on the dim yellow light which looked like it was fighting to be let free from the white window curtains, which now appeared yellow from the illumination. An observer would have thought he was a spy sent to watch his neighbors through the window, but his mind was far away. He wondered why he could no longer sleep, why his life had turned out to be the way it was, why he felt empty, why all the people who ever...

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“the road not taken” by Mia S

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It’s midnight, but I have no intention of sleeping.I can hardly even look at my old bed, sitting in the corner under all the music posters that I didn’t bother to take down from the wall before I left. Quilt pressed and straight, pillows perfectly in place. Like an artifact. Something you might see in a museum. I haven’t touched it since I got here. I feel better here, by the window, sitting in my dad’s desk chair because he’s been using my room as an office. No—not my room. My room is in a studio apartment across the country, fill...

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“Cry In the Woods” by Kaya Atkins

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I slowly unzipped the tent window to peer outside. It was too dark to see anything. “Annie?” “You heard it, too?” she whispered. My friend Annie and I went camping for the weekend, a summer ritual that we’ve done for seven years. After the sudden death of Annie’s father, she refused to talk to anyone but me. After being diagnosed with depression, she adopted a service dog named Charlie, a now eight-year-old Belgian Malinois. “Was it Charlie?” I breathed. “No, she’s right here, but I think she heard it too.” We both sat...

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“Holding Up.” by Jolamade Adetoro

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New York in the night, there was nothing like it. It was simply different, captivating, enthralling. The stars in the open sky and the bright bright moon with the numerous streetlights illuminating the streets.She stared out her open window feeling the cool night breeze on her face staring down from up high in her apartment onto the street filled with bustling crowd. It was 10pm and yet there were people out hurrying home, rushing out. Everybody had important work to do, had to get somewhere really fast. She liked to imagine where...

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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

“"Attaboy"” by Lucky Loxley

“Light of The Moon” by Shae Dandridge

“Outside My Window: Last Chance” by Mack Denver

“Middle of Destiny” by Joe Swanson

“Repentance ” by Marianna Mills

“Snapped” by Miranda Klapheke

“Broken as a Pane of Glass” by Josh C

“Ethereal Night” by Ioana Mareta

“Endless Forest ” by Yvette F

“For My Dream” by Muhammad Hamza Suleman

“Wrong Window” by Bharathi Raja R

“Sammy's Window” by Lilian Mbithe

“the road not taken” by Mia S

“Cry In the Woods” by Kaya Atkins

“Holding Up.” by Jolamade Adetoro

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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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