“Why am I always looking at life through a window?”

― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

She had never been allowed to leave the house. Her parents did everything for her. They bought groceries and picked up her prescriptions. They home schooled her and even let her friends come over, but she could never visit them. They even went to the trouble of replacing all the windows with screens. The screens could play whatever she wanted, but she preferred to set them to “day” and “night” mode and pretend she could see the sky and the stars. Even though she had never seen the real sky, the screens never felt right. She decided, finally, that she would see the real sky for herself. She decided that when her parents left to go grocery shopping she would run past them and look at everything she could (she couldn’t escape after they were gone, you see, because the door locked on both sides.) But when she made her daring escape, she was truly terrified of what she saw.

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