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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

“Indulge Me In, Snow.” by Shreya Kandari

Submitted to Contest #77

CW: suicide I looked at it, the first snow of this year. Falling down freely as if they have waited for this moment from many years. Dropping themselves on the ground, but still so happy. It was the same cold winter this year, the chilly winds which made people adore laziness and stay back at their homes. But somehow it felt colder to me, I realized it wasn't the snow that made me feel colder, just my own loneliness in this warm home, but not enough warmth that will melt my sadness in my heart. Suddenly, I smiled looking through my gl...

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“Bonfire ” by Des Feller

Submitted to Contest #77

"You're coming to the bonfire tonight, right?" Her hand swings over my shoulder, and I bend forward at the sudden impact, almost dropping my phone in the process. "Jeez Zoe, keep that thing under control," I say with a laugh, pushing her away. She laughs too, hooking her arm over me again as we continue down the hallway of our nearly empty high school. "What, you mean my arm?" she says innocently. "No, I mean your pet tiger that you take everywhere," I say with a point and when she instinctively looks down, I jab her quickly in the stomach, ...

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“The Bay Window” by Aubrey Spencer

Submitted to Contest #77

Jack Wilson sat in his navy blue robe, nursing a strong cup of scalding hot coffee, sitting at his favorite bay window. This space, despite being cold enough by the large window that he saw his breath when he blew, was where Jack sat every day. Thinking. Looking through the window to the snow. Remembering. Times when sitting in this bay window was filled with company. Simpler times when he could sit here with his coffee too sweet, writing and reading and drawing the view of the bare trees covered in a white reflection and a frozen lake, sere...

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“The Riddle of Snow Mountain” by Grace Estano

Submitted to Contest #77

It is summer in old Tanzania. And while people in their neighboring cities and towns are headed for the beaches the natives of Tanzania converge to Snow Mountain to witness a son's, a nephew's, a cousin's, a neighbor's, friend's or an enemy's Coming of Age or Rite of Passage.On the eve of the initiation, candidates should have been registered duly with the screening committee. The candidates should at least be twelve years old on the eve of the actual Rite or exactly thirteen years old at the stroke of midnight the following day. All qualifi...

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“Set In Snow” by Carole Cobos

Submitted to Contest #77

Trigger Warning: Suicide Attempt. Overdose.She stared at the snow, a cool crisp blanket of white. Not yet muddled by footsteps. “Taylor,” her boyfriend’s hand ghosted a few breaths short of her shoulder “don’t you want to go outside?”She raises the open book from her lap, showing him the cover. Non-verbally telling him that she didn’t want to go outside, she had a book.He sighed, looking at his tall strong girlfriend dwarfed in a sweater, shaking like a leaf. She was staring at the snow again, with the glazed look on her face.Tears slip...

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“The Last Christmas” by Zoe Lamotte

Submitted to Contest #77

Chiro chuckled as he watched his two-year-old son playing with his cousins. He couldn't help but be proud of his nephews, both of which much older than Tsuki at ten and six respectively, for letting him join them. Kelly, the oldest of the two, was helping Tsuki push a snowball for a snowman. He jumped a bit when he felt a nudge, and he looked up to see his older sister grinning at him. Her eyes were tired, but even with the chemotherapy, it didn't seem to be lowering her spirits as this was the first Christmas they had spent together in ne...

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“Blooming, Withering, and Reblooming in the Winter” by Ethernia Thiadi

Submitted to Contest #77

"Hurry up, man, what's taking you so long?" "Various reasons, one being I'm not as young as I'm used to be, and-" "Oh, come on, we are not that far apart in years!" Well, not all of us pertains their youthful spunk into their mid-40s. Though, I chose not to keep that thought to myself. Always had been a ball of limitless energy, this woman. I remember it as clear and white as the snowy landscape surrounding us. Her energy never seems to have dwindled over the years. "Boo! Slowwww!" she teased from the top of the wintry hill. I could on...

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“The Invisible Footprints” by Parvathy Sabapathy

Submitted to Contest #77

Dad is a die-hard, never-give-up person brimming with positivity. Still, the rigours and worries of the past six months have taken a toll on him. The fit and energetic person is slowly reducing to a mass of despair. The search for Yeti has hit him hard. I try my best to help him in every new search mission we undertake, but he doesn’t listen to me. He ignores me because I'm still a girl. He believes, I'm misdirecting him towards some wrong path. He thinks, I'm leading him towards a nice little snow dune that I can slide down as much as I wan...

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“What I Found in My Manager's Office During the Blizzard” by Story Time

Submitted to Contest #77

To Whoever Finds This Letter, Hello from Death. Or the Beyond. Or the Great Beyond. Whatever or Whomever you choose to believe in. I am not entirely sure I’m dead, but being alive would be a long-shot, since I am about to trek out into the snow after spending four long hours trapped in this bank. What, you may ask, were you doing trapped in a bank while the largest blizzard since the Tuscaloosa Torpedo sent frozen frogs and snowflakes flying around back in 1987? Well, it’s funny you should theoretically ask that, because as it ...

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“A Message That Combined Two Nations ” by Lunaria Dragonix

Submitted to Contest #77

Now that I am old enough to go on my personal journey. Zurich the Imp Messenger came to the door and knocked. Knock, knock, knock! I was surprised to see the message. As a surprise to me and my Parental Structure it was a message from our rival nation the Icy Elves, who used the element of Ice to create weapons. We Snow Elves use our abilities to create wards and shields in defense. We now have to find a way to get there without incident, but how can we move to our enemy line? How can we prevent war? Why is doing this important? Well they st...

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“A Place So Unfamiliar” by Jellybean Weirdo

Submitted to Contest #77

"Make sure your out of the office by 7 today Anya. There is supposed to be a snow storm tonight." My coworker said as he packed up. "I'll be outta here by 5 I just need to finish some samples and I'll be gone." I said. I am a scientist that works in a research building for making cures for the diseased. "Make sure you lock up your the last here and the security was told to stay home so he doesn't get snowed in." "Alright Sam, you can leave now." I said paying attention to my work. Sam said his goodbye and left the room. I worked on the...

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“Ladies retreat gone wrong” by Sue Catrama

Submitted to Contest #77

Jackie woke on a beautiful sunny hot and humid August morning. Although the humidity was so thick she could have cut it with a knife the morning was glorious. She was waiting on her friends Emilia and Stephanie to pick her up and head to the airport for their long awaited beach trip. They started planning for this week long trip just after the Christmas holiday. Giving themselves plenty of time to have it paid off by the time they disembarked. For several years they have been planning a luxurious getaway, but life stopped them. During Christ...

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“The Key of Eidolon: Brilliant Disguise” by Cara H

Submitted to Contest #77

Brilliant Disguise Grim and Frostbitten Hearts 3 December 2014 “Ugh, it’s getting worse,” forty-seven-year-old nursing assistant Pepper Baiij groaned as she looked out the panoramic front window of Trinity Retirement Community in Lawrence, Kansas at the blowing snow. “It’s becoming a full-on blizzard. Maybe I should come with you on your outdoor rounds, Mary.” “Wouldn’t do to have both of us getting lost in the storm, Hon,” sixty-four-year-old security guard Mary Fonseca countered. “You know I wouldn’t feel right if one of the folks wandered...

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“Silver Love” by Emma Harris

Submitted to Contest #77

January 21, 2014 Poof. The beautiful, white, crystal gently lowered itself to the ground only to quickly be covered by hundreds more. I watched as they gently hit the ground outside my window. It was the first time that I had seen snow in twelve years. I had forgotten just how beautiful it was. Taradiddle The thought of, even the small freedom, of an uncovered window An outlet to the world I no longer belong in Riveted by the seductress Khione Alert to the beauty that is just outside my reach Delighted by the smallest freedom Imbued by ...

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“Wes Anderson Pink” by Brayden Lee Beavis

Submitted to Contest #77

They said on the news this morning that it was the hottest summer on record, but it just started snowing. The phone slipped from my ear a while ago, hit the tiles on its corner and slid to a stop. I don’t think I even moved to catch it. There is a tremor somewhere inside of me from a place where I keep things buried. I see the afternoon sun perched in the brilliant blue, but there are storm clouds rolling in with the snow. The phone started vibrating again at my feet, rumbling against the uneven tiles. That would be Mum with the news. ...

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Title: Burying David

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