Set your story in a place with extreme weather, but don’t use any weather-related words to describe it.

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“Capacitor Mountains” by Marian Reiley

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R'Kal Nevrest was a planetary scientist with Gibra's Society for Atmospheric and Planitary Research, or GSAPR. His people had been studying extreme abnormal conditions. Thura had been inhabited by the Gialzik for thousands of years. Durring most of that time, the planet had been a stable place for life. The photons reaching the surface had provided sufficient energy for autotrophic lifeforms to sustain thriving ecosystems. Liquid Dihydrogen Oxide condensed and fell often enough and in the right places that the Gialzik could create agr...

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“The Big Hairdryer Sucks” by Matthew Ward

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There are few calmer ways to start a day than by watering flowers. From their window-ledge, my carnations relish the dawn, and I fawn over them. I’ve found a simple pleasure in waking every morning to nurture a petalled piece of unassuming beauty. It’s only a little thing, a tiny part of each day, but I’ve found it to be something purely gentle. Work beckoning, though, I leave my house, here in Downtown. The cobblestone path takes me from my door, under a creeper-clad arch, and onto the pavement where the hum and scent of Mr Wick’s l...

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“You’ll Get Used to It” by LuAnn Williamson

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You’ll Get Used to It By LuAnn Williamson “Welcome to Capiucho Seven,” the Concierge told me as he bowed low over my hand that held my identity chip. The brass trim on his suit glittered in the overhead lights. “We hope you can easily adapt to the conditions here and stay on here, taking up residence. Just keep to the concourses for the first few days, even weeks and you’ll be fine.” He gestured down the line to the next stop at the space port. “Customs is over there.” The white c...

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“A'mara Winter's Day” by Lori Svensen

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Eneka put on her thick boots, gloves and heavy cloak before leaving her quarters. She normally liked stable duty, but not today. It reminded her once more how far away she was from her homeland. Stepping outside into the blinding white, she wished she had sunglasses on to help her see her way to the stables. Not that it would matter as her view was obscured in the swirling white surrounding the complex. Her boots crunched as she walked. <How could people live here?> she wondered, as she shivered and hurried up the covered p...

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“This bus full of Strangers” by Mariam Mansuryan

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E really wants to open the window, yet there's no command from a higher authority to do so. She is a shy girl from a small town with a mother who brought her up under the strictest regime. E had to be home before 9. E had to obey her mother's commands. E had to please her mother until the end. E's mother died yesterday. She is taking the bus to the swimming pool like she does every other day. E hates swimming without even knowing about it. Her mother forced her to go for the sake of her form and for her mental health the depths of wh...

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“The Pit Stop” by Carly Kapusinsky

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The road was long, and the gas was cheap. It had been the kind of drive that seemed made only of highways, of concrete ribbons unfurling into eternity and stuttered with exit signs gone so quick their memory lasted longer than their moment. Justin was on this road for seventy miles more, had been on for thirty miles past, and hadn’t noticed the fuel gauge needle hardly a hair’s breadth from E. The gas light had yet to be lit, but the dull place where it might bored a hole into the peace of his subconsciousness. Which is why it fe...

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“The Siren” by J Smith

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The house wouldn’t stop moaning. It creaked and groaned in pain, waiting for someone to put it out of its misery. I remembered how charming the building had seemed at first, this prison that we had thought would be our palace. Constant rapping on the panes and roof battered my ears with discordant, arhythmic drumming. I knew that there was a time in the past with sunlight, but I couldn’t remember when last that was.Water dripped from a dark, peeling wound on the ceiling. A droplet would fall onto the pillow, and a follower would make its mar...

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“Always Tip the Taxi Driver” by M. L. Ammes

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Twelve seconds. That was all it took, and he shrank back inside the taxi with all the grace of a drowned rat and cheeks as ruddy as a spanked bottom. “Jesus Christ!” He gasped, slamming the door with fervent finality. His patent leather loafers squeaked and squelched as they rubbed against the mat, where a small pond was already accumulating, complete with leftovers of the local wildlife that had hitched a ride on his heels. “It’s pissing the polar icecaps out there! Where are we? The universe’s backstreet urinal?” “The scenic side of it, ...

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“Vacation wasted” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

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This year vacation has begun but everything seems unnatural. This unnatural mood of nature needlessly negated the near final preparations for an excursion down south and forced to stay put indoors. A boy who prefers to remain outdoors all through the year is disheartened and disgusted to hear that the dams have been opened.The damn good days are brushing past at jet speed and dull school days are fast approaching with bated breath stretching their arms and drawing the boy’s attention to do his homework and readying the essay on how he spent ...

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“U-12” by Chris Slade

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Home. A place I’ve never been. The waves crash against the shore as I step out of the hatch of my C-32 Starfighter and onto its gray, carbon scored hull. What an odd thing to call the blackened marks, ‘carbon scoring’. Science debunked the theory, yet the name remains and even those of us who know better use it. My mind refocuses on my surroundi...

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“Sternutation” by JamesandKenzie Pendergrass

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Andrea had joked about it for years, every time the pollen or mold or dust appeared and the plants did anything besides just sit there and be green. Popping antihistamines like M&Ms, to the point where she could take a benedryl at 6 am and go all day without nodding off and a myriad of various prescription drugs as soon as they hit the market kept her functional, but only barely. When asked, she said she only had two sinus infections a year; they just lasted five months each. When she would have a sneezing fit walking from her car to the...

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“Acceptance is the New Normal” by Stephanie Frank

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My day started out all wrong. This was no ordinary day in Death City. Something different. I hesitated before descending my apartment steps. I looked out over the horizon, noting its greenish-black pallor. Its death stare. Its empty, aloof, and lonely presence. No dogs barked. No kids played. No horns honked. Nothing but extreme silence. I checked my watch: 6:23 a.m. I had exactly twenty minutes before the Heavens parted and the bowels of Hell unleashed torment upon our city. As if on cue, the sky lit up just long enough for me to see hund...

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“Tears of Belkior” by Christopher Cayen-Cyr

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“Mother, why is it water is constantly pouring from high above?” “I have told you many times, my son. These are the tears of Almighty Belkior.” “But it almost never stops!” “Perhaps if you stopped making Belkior unhappy with your bad behavior, he would stop crying, wouldn’t he?” No matter how many times I asked Mother, I was always given the same answer. I must have been only two years old when I first dared to ask, and at the time it was easy for me to cower in guilt at the thought of making mighty Belkior angry. Unfortunately, to M...

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“Some slab” by Sasha Frank

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“Gloss, Gloss, Gloss!’ “Wake up! It’s your turn.”“I hope she had a nightmare, again like last week.” Nepo snickered. “I whispered the munchkins song in her ear last night, I think we are going to be set today”, Beetle said in the loudest whisper. “I heard you assholes, and I was awake Beetle. Your stinky breath was the only scary thing.”Damn, this was only going to be a stopover for a couple days, but now i'm part of this fucked up culty ass family. Waking up every morning, I can't even tell anymore what time of day it is with all ...

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“Barrow” by Charles Moxham

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What a flight. Charles looked out the window but could barely make out the town far below. The plane was being tossed by the thick air and swirling clouds. It was his first time to Barrow and he knew its reputation well. California seemed a distant memory as he stepped onto the tarmac and shivered, pulling his new coat around his ears. The passengers were in a struggling line trying to reach the arrival gate just inside the airport’s main terminus – in fact it was the only fully grown runway, mused Charles as he saw the secondary strip a...

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Set your story in a place with extreme weather, but don’t use any weather-related words to describe it.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 69 stories

“Capacitor Mountains” by Marian Reiley

“The Big Hairdryer Sucks” by Matthew Ward

“You’ll Get Used to It” by LuAnn Williamson

“A'mara Winter's Day” by Lori Svensen

“This bus full of Strangers” by Mariam Mansuryan

“The Pit Stop” by Carly Kapusinsky

“The Siren” by J Smith

“Always Tip the Taxi Driver” by M. L. Ammes

“Vacation wasted” by K V CHIDAMBARAM

“U-12” by Chris Slade

“Sternutation” by JamesandKenzie Pendergrass

“Acceptance is the New Normal” by Stephanie Frank

“Tears of Belkior” by Christopher Cayen-Cyr

“Some slab” by Sasha Frank

“Barrow” by Charles Moxham

🌟 Similar prompts

Write about a couple who have just moved to a place that one person loves, and the other hates.

Write about a character arriving in a place unlike anywhere they’ve ever been.

Write a story that feels lonely, despite being set in a packed city.

Set your story in a small town where everyone is suspicious of newcomers.

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