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#77: Snow Day

It’s deep into winter where I live and here that means one thing: snow, and plenty of it.

 

While I’m not the biggest fan, even I will admit that it makes great writing weather. There’s just something cozy about curling up with a blanket and a cup of tea, and losing yourself in the world of your imagination as flakes drift slowly past your window.

 

We won’t all be writing under those conditions this week, but we can still evoke that feeling. So grab yourself a mug of something warm, snuggle up with your laptop, and dream of the bite of winter wind on your cheeks…

This week's prompts

Write about two people going sledding for the first time in many years.

Fluff – 130 stories

Start your story with someone looking out at the snow, and end it with them stepping tentatively onto a frozen surface.

Winter – 233 stories

Write about someone who gets stuck in their workplace during a blizzard and decides to explore rooms they aren’t normally allowed in.

Winter – 162 stories

Write a story set in the summer, when suddenly it starts to snow.

Summer – 159 stories

Set your story in a remote winter cabin with no electricity, internet, or phone service.

Winter – 246 stories

Stories

“The MAY SNOW” by Sreedevi Mahapatra

Submitted to Contest #77

Wish I could go home, back to my village and feel the warmth of the January sun. The beautiful yellow mustard flowers in the fields , the baby green wheat fields, the long reddish brown sugarcane, the spring onion saplings, new brown potatoes, the peanut candy made with fresh golden colour jaggery and of course the hard sesame seed balls also made with jaggery... uff the list is endless”, murmured Jaya struggling with her sari, the overcoat and of course the snow boots. Jaya had come to Atlanta to assist her daughter Radha with her fi...

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““A Hedonist” ” by Bisma Khalid

Submitted to Contest #77

Throwback to 2017, when it was Summer and the month of June in the tropical rays of sun from where the story begins. A young beautiful girl got married to her first cousin. The girl belonged to a rich family but her cousin wasn’t much economically stable but still the marriage was held.  The marriage went well and the bride moved to her husbands place, it were the times when she realised that she has stepped into a dungeon rather than her new home.  As she entered she was instructed by the grooms family to hide her valuables as he ...

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“The Halo of the Blue Moon” by Flizzle Out

Submitted to Contest #77

Marcia stood at the big living room window. She stared at the blue halo moon. It would slowly rolled in the frosty sky. There was a dead stillness in the other room. Blue moonlight reflected on sheets of snow that blanketed each yard. His body still, under a blanket in their marital bed. She walked to the other side of the living room.  She looked through the glass doors, to the deck, at the silent stillness of he...

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“The Mountainside” by Bill Willoughby

Submitted to Contest #77

Many, many years ago, when tigers used to smoke, there lived an old man on a mountain. He lived in a secluded cabin far, far away from any other people. He was happy there alone with nothing but his own thoughts. Until he met her. Life became brighter. His beautiful wife, a lovely creature, all smiles and sunshine, pretty blonde curls, blue eyes the color of the clear running mountain stream that flowed past their cabin. Her voice as soft and sweet as the tufted titmouse, she would sing all day while she worked around the cabin. He could h...

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“The Three Musketeers” by Puhalenthi Ramesh Vidhya

Submitted to Contest #77

My boss disappeared a few months ago. He was last seen entering the office on security cameras. After his disappearance, the office turned into total chaos. We never predicted a situation like this. A few days later, the board elected a new boss. She's strict and restricted many areas we normally used to go to, like the pantry, lounge room, and other epic parts of the building. The only room we are allowed to go in is our office and the cafeteria. Day after day, it's been the same; almost uniform. He was gone during the summer. His parents h...

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“Beginning of the End” by Rosie Garcia

Submitted to Contest #77

Well. Here you are. All the way at the beginning of the end. You’re staring at the snow, aren’t you? Like it holds the answers to your questions? You don’t have any questions. But it seems that you think there are answers. Answers to why it is only the beginning of the end, when so much has already gone wrong. That’s not a question; it’s a statement. There is a lot of thinking to be done. Thinking about how you could stay here, and remain quiet in your ways, to halt the end in its tracks. That’s how it’s supposed to work, right? If you do no...

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“Snow that never melts” by Zaineb Haj Nasr

Submitted to Contest #77

The lamp is burnin' low upon my tabletopThe snow is softly fallin'The air is still in the silence of my roomI hear your voice softly callin'If I could only have you nearTo breathe a sigh or twoI would be happy just to hold the hands I loveOn this winter's night with you...             Arthur started singing. His voice was trembling he didn’t even know why exactly! because the weather was cold or because of old age or because of crying. He wanted to sing without showing his...

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“The First Date” by Amanda Fox

Submitted to Contest #77

“Ow!  Son of a bitch!” Ava swore as she stabbed herself in the eye with the mascara wand.  She planted her feet as the earthquake shook the apartment and rattled the items on her bathroom counter.  Tremors were common in the area, she was learning, but most were too weak to notice without equipment. “I’m nervous enough,” she grumbled.  Ava took a deep breath and exhaled.  “It’s just a drink.  If we don’t hit it off, I can leave.” First dates always gave Ava butterflies.  The plan was to check out the ...

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“A Gregarious Snow Fall.” by Tariq Saeed

Submitted to Contest #77

It was my third day in Karachi, Pakistan, attending the wedding of my friend. As i touched the net, reedsy prompt appeared,as a regular short story writer,it was my utmost try to write something new,and It was a brand_new prompt for me,Snow, all snowy. It chirred up me that there in Karachi the weather was still humid and people were still looking for air conditioning to sit.So,to write about a story ,depicting snow in Karachi ,was not justified,that stirring cold was not circumferring in the feeling, So,to add an original tou...

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“The Secret Ingredient” by Kevin Weaver

Submitted to Contest #77

The comfort of the secret ingredient soothed Great Grandma Eva, as one unexpected guest after the other (eight in all), invaded her tiny- cozy farmhouse that cold, late winter February night. Alarming news of forecasts of snow accumulations, in excess of four feet, were jamming the telephone party lines in the remote farming community, situated between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, in Northwestern New York.  Schools closed early, and many families scurried, in preparation for the impending super storm. Short of a full day, a rus...

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“Dinner for two” by Jessica Primrose

Submitted to Contest #77

Author's note: This story contains disturbing themes.“There is no Goatman, Peter.”“But I saw it!” “Oh, what have I told you about trying to start a fright? Now please eat your supper. I will hear no more of this nonsense.” Peter’s freckled nose scrunched up at the smell of the porridge. The smell itself was rather bland and faint. Similar to smelling a field of corn about a few blocks away. It had been porridge for weeks now. Bland grits and spotted water from the well. Black particles floated to the top of the yellowish water and ...

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“Me, Them And Her” by Rose Cartwright

Submitted to Contest #77

Flake by flake it's falling.  I cannot help but always be in awe of snow. Not simply because of the cloak of calm it covers the winter days with, but because of the courage each tiny flake carries in itself, not a fear in the world. Happy to fall.  Sometimes I wish I were like that. Happy to just let go of my worries and daily stresses, let life become what it wants instead of what society says it should be.  I came here to escape those thoughts for a day or two, the ever-evolving sometimes crushing expect...

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“Life Without Minecraft (for a little while so i don't freak out...)” by Puhalenthi Ramesh Vidhya

Submitted to Contest #77

I hated this. I mean, what kind of stupid idea is it to go to Alaska in a winter cabin during the summer break, when my friends are having a blast at a pool party. I HATE THE WINTER! THE ONLY FUN THING TO DO IS PLAY SNOWBALL FIGHT, BUT THE SNOW IS ONLY HALF AN INCH HIGH! Sorry for the caps, but I'M PROVING MY POINT! Sorry again... Anyway, I was angry at my parents for the dumb idea, and before I could protest, they held up the plane tickets. "Pleath come. Pweeeeth," Abby, my little sister yelled, lisping the 's'. "Pweeeethe" "...

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“288 Hours” by Louise Muller

Submitted to Contest #77

"Go to Austria," my sister had said, "it'll be good for you to be by yourself, away from technology, people, and especially that ass, Rob." Now that I find myself in Austria, alone, with no means to contact the outside world, I fear I didn't think this through. My sister, Debs has four children under the age of four years old. Silence must be something she treasures. For me, however, I find the silence that surrounds me here to be crushing, like an invisible force that engulfs and consumes. She was right, though. I needed to get away. Rob...

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“The River” by Caitlin Biggs

Submitted to Contest #77

The woods that were once full of emerald-green life were now seemingly dead and covered in a heavy layer of snow. Not a single leaf remained untouched. The moss, the ferns, every little rock had disappeared underneath the frozen precipitation. There was no sign of any animal, any life hidden from the winter’s wrath.  I stood staring out at those woods, the only thing separating me from them a narrow river that ran perhaps infinitely on either side of me. Despite the cold, all I wore was a thrifted cardigan and stolen jeans that sagged ...

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