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The girl who wrote in the rain

What would you do if one day you saw words floating in the raindrops on the window glass—words you didn't write or say? If those words changed little by little every rainy night, would you wait in the hope of reading the full story one day? This is the story of a girl who used to read the words written in the rain on the window.

By Canvas WhispersPublished 8 months ago 1 min read
The girl who wrote in the rain
Photo by Thanun Buranapong on Unsplash

The First Drop

Rini sits by the window every evening when it rains. With hot ginger tea in hand, her mind seems to be lost in the old smells—wet earth, old letters. But that evening, a line floated on the glass:

"He's still waiting..."

Rini was startled. In an instant the writing disappeared. It was as if there was nothing. Just wet stains.

Invisible Pen

Rini couldn't understand - was this her imagination, or something real? The next day the rain came again, she sat at the window. And then another line floated:

"You stopped writing the last chapter..."

This line seemed to stir some familiar word inside her. But who was writing? How?

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Halfway through the story

Rini went to her grandmother—a poet once, now with blurry eyes. Rini asked, "Grandma, can raindrops talk?"

Grandma laughed, "You're asking the wrong question. The question is not whether they can talk or not. The real question is, who is talking?"

Strange scenes began to appear in Rini's dreams—a forest of paper, a face covered in ink shadows, a boy who kept moving away from her.

A little surprise outside the story (for the reader in between)

In 1943, an Italian writer claimed to have heard an entire novel from the sound of rain. He said that each storm was a chapter in the story. The book was later lost in a flood. Coincidence? Or something deeper?

A boy on the other side of the window

One day, a raindrop floated up:

"I wrote the first line. Will you write the last?"

Rini knew then—she had to finish this story. She wrote on glass, on paper, in the air. She was looking for a fulfillment—within herself.

That night, the last message came:

"Thank you."

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Then nothing more was written on the window.

The last part (beautiful and complete)

Rini no longer sits at the window. Now she walks, writes, lives. She knows, every storm brings a story, and every story seeks a person who will listen to it.

A window, some raindrops, and a writer—that was their story.

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Welcome to Canvas Whispers — where colors speak and stories unfold through art. From soulful visuals to poetic thoughts, this space celebrates creativity, emotion, and imagination.

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