Tag: window

  • The Ultimate Freeze

    Photo Prompt © Jennifer Pendergast  As soon as the water in the bowl froze, I knew I was in trouble. That lonely bowl of water was the only thing keeping me tethered to my future. The only thing keeping hope alive. Now that I couldn’t drink the water, I slowly looked up and out the…

  • The Window

    PHOTO PROMPT © Alicia Jamtaas  I knew when I saw him, I wanted to know him. But I knew he couldn’t come up to my apartment. It was too small and I had too much furniture. And I hadn’t done my laundry. It was too hot. The fan in the window was the only way…

  • The Window

    “We don’t have any windows.  How do we not have any windows?”  I took a deep breath and tried to calm my beating heart.  I was claustrophobic and if there weren’t windows in the hotel room, the walls started closing in.  “I was told there were windows,” Jeff said sensing my anxiety.  He gently took my arm and led…

  • The Window

    I jumped the moment Martin knocked on the window.  I had been waiting for him, but I honestly wasn’t sure he would show up.  He had been talking so much about his great desire to sneak out of the house, I didn’t believe he would go through with it.    At seventeen, I never could quite…