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“Never Ending Blizzard ” by Xander Dmer

I open my eyes, hearing wind blowing on my window. I wake up not knowing what time it is. I throw some jeans and a shirt on. I rush into the bathroom, having the urge to pee. I brush my teeth, wash my face, brush my hair and I'm off. I put my coat on and head outside. When I get into my truck, it wont turn on. Dammit! this old piece of crap. After another try, a loud roaring sound comes to life, finally. I rush out the d...

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“Espoir” by Orenda ♤

The totems coruscate with the tints of amethyst, ruby, canary and emerald and a lot more that the spectrum of colours can expand to. Every colour is ablaze with emotions and tells the stories of not happy families and evergreen love stories, but tales of traumatic memories and catastrophic plot twists that are discarded and wished to wash away with the azure tides of the sea that recede and fade away, never to splash its feet on withering rocks and giggling children. Fauna hands a claret totem over to a customer tha...

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“Snowed In” by 𝙇𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙡𝙛

SNOW ALERT! HEAVY SNOW IS EXPECTED FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS! PLEASE GET HOME OR IN A BUILDING! The loudspeaker boomed. “Snow? Now?” James “Jam” Roger thought aloud. He turned to the room that he just came out of. A wedding. They had to have a wedding today. He thought to himself. He started cleaning off the twenty tables in the small stuffy room. He took down the sign that read “Happy days ahead”. He rolled the tables into a storage room off of the side of the room. He grabbed a broom and started swe...

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“The Exonerate” by Henry Obewhu

Mark, was a young man at his mid twenty's, he is from Atlanta and he was working in a very high and reputable company in New York City, he was very intelligent and smart and he was one among the staffs of the company, among the team of workers that are working in the marketing and advertising department, most times when they are having any challenge he is usually the one solving them, his ideas most times are the solutions the company falls back on to help them navigate through difficult situations and he appeared to be the best and untou...

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“The Truth About My School” by 山.w. S𝓀y฿elle

“Okay, that’s a wrap, everybody! Good work! Make sure to review your individual and overall instructions on canvas. Practice practice practice. See you next week for the performance!” I started packing my sheet music as quickly as I could, desperate to get out of the claustrophobic room. I felt like passing out. My brain was fried from all of the word enunciations and pronunciations we went over. His-tr...

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“The Assembly Line” by Elise Volkman

The boss never mentioned that the fingerprint scanners weren’t tied to the back-up generator. I suppose that made sense. A security flaw that big wasn’t something to advertise. I wouldn’t even have noticed either, except that I forgot my keys in my office when I left for the day. Six hours of overtime… If I didn’t get these projects under control, they’d nitpick my time management skills at my next perfor...

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“Talk” by Ari Reynes

I decided to do a story with characters from some of my different series. If you haven't read them, that's fine, it should still make sense. I definitely recommend them, though. If you want to know which series they're from, just ask!I unlock the front doors for my first session of the day. The sun is bright today.My name is Ky. I’m...well, I’m not really sure what my job would be considered. It’s all kinds of different things, really. I deal with lots of supernatural things, so there isn’t much that surpri...

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“Snow Storm ” by Eleanor Eclipse

Doors locked. Check. Windows shut. Check. It is midnight and everyone has officially left the building. I have been waiting since I have arrived at Sounds.Inc to explore the rooms, locked away from prying eyes. I have been counting down the days until the perfect snowstorm will strike. I am officially trapped at my office as one would say. But, rather, I am not trapped. I choose to stay there. -----------------

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“Don't work too hard” by Badra Abbas

Indira rubbed her eyes exhaustedly, trying to blink out the pain. She accidentally glanced at her watch and winced, knowing her betta fish and her boyfriend probably hated her for staying so late. God, what if Martin killed Bubbles? He was always insisting that she underfed Bubbles, what if he fed him too much or something, and- Indira was shaken out of this terrifying spiral by the sounds of a door slamm...

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“Office Worker” by Vicky S

The lights turned off, leaving the entire seventeenth floor of the office complex in darkness, except for the computers with their screensavers showing exotic locations. Swearing loudly, Maggie staggered out of her chair, it’s wheels squeaking on the scratched lino, and flicked on one of the desk lamps. It’s yellow light shone over her desk, illuminating the pile of papers she’d neatly placed after completi...

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“Solitary Snowstorm ” by Maggie Hicklin

The squall of snow never slowed, the plip-plip pattern hitting the windows adding a dreamy rhythm to the bookstore within. Shelves upon shelves of used books which smelt of broken hearts and mild dust lined the walls. The fluorescent lights flickered every minute or three to remind those within of the brewing blizzard. A young woman sat at the only cashier’s des...

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“Cora” by Emmie Greensgate 🏗🔚🔚👫

Deep below the building on First and Main, sixteen stories of glassy, modern tech lab balanced above it, a strange chamber sat, untouched, full of the lights of the monitors monitoring nothing, with a cold stone floor and alarms on the door, reachable by climbing a set of steep cement stairs, and it almost was… waiting for someone? The chamber wasn’t empty, though. In t...

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“Retention Labs” by Joshua Insole

Louise Carlson stared at the computer screen, the CCTV footage frozen still. She chewed her inner lip. “HR is gonna have our heads on a platter for this,” she said to the empty office.Noelia leaned into the doorway. “Hey, Carlson, you figure out where our man is at yet?”Louise pulled a face. “Well…”“No luck? Hm. Maybe I oughtta phone the company, see if he’s ill.”“Actually, I found out what happened to him.”Noelia glanced up and down the corridor. Sh...

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“A Different Arrangement” by Amy Hodges-laurenzo

I stand before a full length mirror asking myself how I ended up in this mess. If only I didn’t snoop around in that blizzard…then I would still be a lowly secretary. The dress I wear is white and mermaid style. My make-up is perfect as is my hair. A house maid has me sit and proceeds to pin a veil to my head. You want to know why I am marrying my boss’s son. Well I can share what I did wrong to suddenly end up in this position.***...

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“The Moon and Her Brother” by Kelly Ellen

The smell of pork and dumplings fill my nostrils and make me audibly groan in hunger. The rice is steaming in the corner of the small kitchen covered in beige walls and family photos. Even after 19 years I am still just as eager to allow the rich scent of traditional China to surround and comfort me. I have to remember this solace every evening when the rush starts. Working in a restaurant in Hong Kong i...

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

Submissions are closed!

✍️ 175 stories

“Never Ending Blizzard ” by Xander Dmer

“Espoir” by Orenda ♤

“Snowed In” by 𝙇𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙡𝙛

“The Exonerate” by Henry Obewhu

“The Truth About My School” by 山.w. S𝓀y฿elle

“The Assembly Line” by Elise Volkman

“Talk” by Ari Reynes

“Snow Storm ” by Eleanor Eclipse

“Don't work too hard” by Badra Abbas

“Office Worker” by Vicky S

“Solitary Snowstorm ” by Maggie Hicklin

“Cora” by Emmie Greensgate 🏗🔚🔚👫

“Retention Labs” by Joshua Insole

“A Different Arrangement” by Amy Hodges-laurenzo

“The Moon and Her Brother” by Kelly Ellen

🌟 Similar prompts

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

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

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

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

Contest #77

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