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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 Snowshine State” by Dalia Navarez

Submitted to Contest #77

  As the assistant principal Mr. Boyle recited the Pledge of Allegiance through the loudspeakers, I bowed my head to look at Damian. As if it were some kind of twin telepathy, he lowered his head on his desk as I did mine at practically the same time. With one look in the eye, we shared one single thought: the thought to leave. The long days and even longer hours of summer school were too tiresome to tolerate. Especially during the one time of the year where the smell of roasted hot dogs and grilled cheeseburgers resonated through ...

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“Barren” by Allison M

Submitted to Contest #77

The Iowa air is dense, syrupy. It carries the scent of the earth, of the fields, and of the corn. The towering stalks clog it with the heat of the July sun like a greenhouse. A breeze ripples the topmost leaves of the endless rows, but it does not reach Anna down in the thick of it, where her ankles bend and twist with the uneven ground. She looks forward through the tangled green even as her work-gloved fingers skim the clutter of leaves on her right, searching. Sensing a slight variation in thickness in one of the leaves, her hand automati...

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“Snow in the land of the eternal summer” by Silvana Varón

Submitted to Contest #77

Nobody knows how it happened; everybody in the town was shocked. Days used to be quiet in this faraway place. This story that I am going to tell you occurs in a Caribbean land. Where every day is sunny, every day is summertime. It was on the days when a famous figure in the music business world was visiting the city. He was there to film a new video that intended to promote the town attracting tourists. Don Ulises, the mayor of the city, knew that this was an especial opportunity to show the world this little town in a Caribbean land.&n...

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“Unsteady” by Allison Hei

Submitted to Contest #77

The last class of the summer should've had me leaping for joy. Instead, I was leaping from one patch of snow to another. Since I wasn't an ice queen, I was grumpy personified.  My flimsy umbrella was shelter enough to get me home before I froze to death though. There were a couple of class clowns taking selfies and hooting with laughter. But I trudged on, teeth chattering and dreaming of a sunny beach. The red sea was where nothing terrible could ever happen. The azure waters would lift up the worst swimmers and allow beginner divers ...

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“BIZARRIE BLIZZARD” by SHYAMALA BHUVANACHANDRAN

Submitted to Contest #77

Madhavi was grazing through Times of India newspaper. She accidentally sighted a small news item on a road accident in Japan highway. She normally would never read such items as these road accidents had become an almost routine affair. But this particular piece of item was about Japan. Hence the go-through. It gave a detailed account of one person’s death and 17 people’s injury, 200 more stranded on the road with a massive pile up of 134 cars on highway. All due to a truck which got rammed into a passenger car. The blizzard and heavy snowfal...

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“Snow? In July!” by Sue Marsh

Submitted to Contest #77

Snow? In July! Suzanne Marsh Being a professional seat cover for twenty two years I thought I had seen everything. All most everything that is; until we had a load going to sunny California. It was mid July in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico. It was a beautiful sunny day, when we left Albuquerque, New Mexico to deliver a load in Ontario, California. My husband and I both had shorts on and the ac on. Little did we know how quickly the weather would change. Being from Buffalo, New York nothing should have surprised us. Good old Interstate...

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“The Failed Experiment” by Amy Jayne Conley

Submitted to Contest #77

Archive Log 222 - October 2nd, 2051 The heat was unbearable. That much I remember. The agonising waves of the sun burning into skin already coated with three layers of plasticky factor 100… yet still so burning. Global warming has spiralled out of control, and the world is so burned in some places that the population has been decimated. Countries so ruined we can’t talk about them now. It’s too horrific. I remember the days when there were penguins and polar bears outside of the zoo, but now there are none. Almost all of the fish populatio...

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“SLOW SURRENDER” by Jean Healey

Submitted to Contest #77

SlowSurrender                                                                     Jean.B. Healey  16/01/2021No movement. No breath. Why was she so still? Only recently we were snuggling up tog...

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“The moral query” by Farah Naime

Submitted to Contest #77

     I wake up with a stabbing headache and a blurry vision; the first thing I notice is the chilling cold hitting against my poorly clothed body, I blink several times trying to get a look around the room, but it’s almost impossible without my glasses and from what I can see I’m inside a barely lit cabin in the middle of a snowed forest. How did I get here?         I reach for my cargo boot, where I normally keep my phone, thank God whoever put me here didn’t find it, I squint...

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“The families who created a home in Eden.” by Lunaria Dragonix

Submitted to Contest #77

I will tell you of a man, his wife, and two teenage children. Now this man had a dream and a purpose burning in his soul. To do the unimaginable, but when Donald Trump took over the Structural Leadership he lead the birth of the United Federation of America. Donald Trump with the help of Joseph Biden who took charge of the Federal Leadership created a better society and aided everyone to destroy the disease that almost destroyed them. You see this man loved spending his winters in his fathers log cabin growing up, a time they learned to live...

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“THE UNEXPLAINED BANGS!” by Barbara Newton

Submitted to Contest #77

Deciding he had had enough of the craziness in the world, Charles took off for his family's hunting cabin in the mountains to be alone and just relax with his thoughts and nature. Along the way, he looked at the insanity all around him and couldn't wait to get to the peace and quiet of the cabin in the mountains. As he got closer to the cabin, he figured it would be a good idea to stop and get groceries for his initial restocking of the cabin, because he had no idea what awaited him there. As he drove closer, he started noticing ...

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“A dream to the future” by Esther Ojifinni

Submitted to Contest #77

I sat by the fire and sniffed the warm air. It smelled of waffles and a brown mix that came from brown seeds. Something rubbed into my shoulder. "Hello Kitsune." I said. Kitsune sat next to me, the fire making her white fir turn orange. "You seem tense," She said to me. "I'm just worried." I said. "About what?" Kitsune asked me. "About us." Kitsune laughed. "I'm here, our humans are here, we live in perfect harmony. We'll never be apart! Stop worrying and just enjoy life." Kitsune leaned into me. "I guess you're right Kitsune. Life is perfec...

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“And you love trouble...” by Tia Jackson

Submitted to Contest #77

“God Alyx, why am I always breaking into places when I’m with you?”Alyx rolls his eyes “Well it was either break into this cabin or camp outside in the snow storm and I don’t know about you, but I’m not a fan of frost bite.”Grace smirks “Oh, you’re not a fan of anything”  Alyx glares at her, his emerald eyes catching the light from the first sparks of the fire he’d been trying to start “You could at least thank me for not abandoning you in the woods — which, for the record, I’m really starting to regret.” He turns his attentio...

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“Nuclear Winter” by Chris Buono

Submitted to Contest #77

      The nuclear winter had been happening for the last four years. It came right after the nuclear summer that lasted for about two years, from right after the bombs dropped until the winter came. I could feel the winds picking up as the already frigid temperature dropped. Tufts of snow were caught in a breeze to fly around for a moment before falling back amongst the other flakes. I noticed that the sky was getting darker and darker with each moment. I needed to find a shelter quickly.    ...

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“ALONE” by Pam Hicks

Submitted to Contest #77

Mandy drove up to the cabin and parked. She set and stared at the cabin, as hundreds of memories flooded her mind. The tears began to fall, her world had come to an end a week ago. She had nothing to live for so why live. She had decided the cabin was the best place to end it all. Mandy had always been a christian and she knew suicide was wrong but she really didn’t care what God thought anymore. He had taken all her reasons for living, so now she would take her own life.            &nbs...

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