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

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“Becoming Donna” by Lizzie Johnson

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Right. Well, I don’t know what I expected but this wasn’t it. It had just passed noon when I — through the forest and pulled up into what I guess you could call some remanence of a driveway. A vague path curved around a lone tree in the clearing, it was surrounded by long blades of grass that only recently seemed to gain the courage to venture into this bare area. The trail stopped just short of the entrance to the cabin, and as I parked the car, I looked up at the wooden structure. It was a cabin of decent size, though the fence around it, ...

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“Paul” by Johnny Manc

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The cabin was silent but for the soft crackling of embers in the hearth, and those glowing cinders gave scant light to the dark space as Daniel entered from the evening snowfall. He cleared his throat and wiped his cracked lips and long beard with a cloth that was once white. He shut the door behind him and leaned against the wall, breathing heavily. Another wave of nausea came and he grabbed the doorknob to exit again, but the spell subsided. He let out a groan and felt the sweat on his forehead, the beads chilling him further. He had been ...

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“The Abandoned Winter Cabin ” by Daniel Harris

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The latest patient stretched her arms and felt her surroundings before remembering where she was, and what had happened the night before… but she couldn’t. “Ah, you’re awake” said the doctor “I was beginning to worry” The girl blinked a few times trying to remember who she was but she didn’t seem to be having much luck with that either. “I have to ask, why am I here, have we…” she quickly checked beside her bed for any unmentionables “it’s alright, I just don’t remember” “We haven’t met, but we were travelling together, I’m trained i...

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“Bad Luck ” by Alex Arias

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Bad luck was sort of Reg’s thing. He didn’t think Jess understood the scope of it, although she’d probably heard his friends joking around. You must’ve really screwed up in a past life, they’d say. Maybe you were a serial killer, or a terrorist. An unholy Pope, or a corrupt politician. Still, he wasn’t sure how prepared she was to spend a weekend with him out in a cabin. Something bad was going to happen. Many bad things would happen. It was fact. For all she had planned, he would be surprised if they got through half the list. Jess had t...

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“Sitting on the Top of the World” by Mike Burgess

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Harry chose this place for its promise of solitude. So far, it more than met his requirements and exceeded his expectations. Someone put this shack here once; perhaps seventy, eighty years ago. Its roof kept the weather out better than he had any right to expect, and the walls remained upright. He found half a dozen windows broken when he came to look around during the summer. Now, several months later, he was glad he bothered to fix them while the sun shone, filling the frames with the best parts of some wood the last owners left behind whe...

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“The Cabin” by Carol Keefer

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The sun’s rays glisten upon the freshly fallen snow that blankets the wilderness where a cabin is amid the trees. Smoke escapes from the chimney as flames lick up the remaining wood in the stone fireplace—the coffee pot spits and whistles as the temperature rises inside the metal can hanging on a hook. Derek pours the black gold in his mug, steam rises, warming his hands, taking a sip, pulls up one of the chairs from the table as he glances up, sees a black bear running toward the cabin. His cup shatters on the floor, spillin...

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“Snow Time Like The Present ” by Cheryl Luke

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The snow actually looks pretty..the quietness of its fall, beautiful white blanket of Nature's perfection, no tire marks yet on the street, no noise of shoveling, it looked like the perfect invitation to curl up on the sofa and spend a few hours daydreaming of how I loved it. The simplicity of it. But, I had work to do . I had to get the application to the client today,. Working from home is never easy ...and throw in a 3 year old who believes YOU work form them, well, there went my invitation. The last few months I have been working f...

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“The Front Door ” by Esilenna Esor

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It was mid January, 1977, and M.J Tarence was shut-in her family's cozy log cabin. A fire was crackling loudly behind her in a stone fireplace with a large wooden mantle above it. Light from the flames flickered violently, flashing orange and red reflections in her eyes as she paced the room. “They should have been back by now.” She thought aloud, growing more impatient as time went on. Walking back and forth near the fireplace between the cabins green sofa and ripped brown arm chair, M.J was lost in thought. She had spent all but an ho...

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“Locked‌ ‌Without‌ ‌An‌ ‌Internet‌ ‌” by Saroj Shrestha

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I'm not insane, and neither this cabin has been haunted before; but there are a lot of unusual voices running around my head as I'm locked inside this winter cabin with no electricity, internet and phone service; The things that I can't live without. Wondering how it feels to be here? It's devastating. Every second that passes by, feels like a torment of death. I want to peel off my skin, rip out all my hairs and recline as if I'm deceased. It's embarrassing to admit this, but I've tried to do so a couple of times. Sometimes, this acrimony l...

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“Howling Wild” by A. A. Thakre

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“It’s anxiety, Avirath,” said the man without lifting his eyes. “Wha... H-how, how do you know? You are no doc, Pranay.” “You don’t need to be a doctor to grasp the situation.” Pranay fluttered through the pages. “The report concludes everything is normal. Nothing is amiss and yet, you insist it is. So, where does that leave us?” He waited expectantly. On eyeing a contorted face, he sighed and added, “anxiety.” ...

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“Folded Cabin” by Mriganka Bhattacharjee

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Reeking of soiled white, the windows, the doors, the thin walls were. The window glasses – cold, and whitely coated. Surely it was snowing outside, but to such an extend no one could imagine. No one, to be exact, it was only Jake, there wasn’t anyone else to begin with. Jake exhaled some cold air and rubbed his dry like ice big hands together, generating at least some warmth. His trivial endeavours of successfully making a lighter flame out, succeeded. The little heat burning close to his face felt m...

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“Beware Abchanchu” by Jenne Gentry

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Nikki Reeves was startled by a loud noise just outside of the small, rustic cabin she rented with a few of her friends. She hurried to the window to investigate. False alarm, it was just a branch breaking under the weight of the snow. She let out the breath she didn't realize she had been holding and went back to stand in front of the fireplace. The fire was starting to die down. It's crazy how fast fire burned through the wood. A city girl, Nikki's apartment had an electric fireplace. She had no experience with the real thing and it d...

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“Matches” by Elle Weaver

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“Whose horrible idea was it to do this?” I asked the air, my voice catching and dying on the recycled hot air. I leaned my forehead and cheek against the cool glass of the window, looking out at the craggy rocks capped with snow. Phillip turned his head to look at me for a moment before turning back to the road. “Yours.” I grunted low in the back of my throat and had nearly gotten comfortable with my shoulder under the seat belt when the car began to shake and jump again as we h...

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“Tomorrow” by Eman Bright

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Joe My leg ached badly.I had to limp behind her, I went over boundaries just to make her trust me wholly. I had to do it, in less than a day, the deal would be finalized and I would be rich as ever. I had to do everything to make her trust me. “I can see a little house ahead, maybe the owners would allow us to stay for the night,” she said, her condensed breath shown greatly under the moonlight. We trudge along slowly, tired from the chase of my men. I had to made sure she believed I was on her side. She was just too hard to kidnap...

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“The Lost Cabin” by Miss Boo

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The viciously bitter wind bit my cheeks. Hot tears stung at the corners of my eyes and I swiped them away. My fingers felt stiff and numb inside my brand-new gloves. The gloves brought to mind the past Christmas. My last with her. Good times. Happy times. I shook the memories away and focused my attention on the steep terrain ahead. The grey sky hung like a dirty curtain over the snow-white mountainside. The hardy hemlock trees, burdened by the heavy weight of a late winter snow, stood tall and p...

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

Submissions are closed

✍️ 246 stories

“Becoming Donna” by Lizzie Johnson

“Paul” by Johnny Manc

“The Abandoned Winter Cabin ” by Daniel Harris

“Bad Luck ” by Alex Arias

“Sitting on the Top of the World” by Mike Burgess

“The Cabin” by Carol Keefer

“Snow Time Like The Present ” by Cheryl Luke

“The Front Door ” by Esilenna Esor

“Locked‌ ‌Without‌ ‌An‌ ‌Internet‌ ‌” by Saroj Shrestha

“Howling Wild” by A. A. Thakre

“Folded Cabin” by Mriganka Bhattacharjee

“Beware Abchanchu” by Jenne Gentry

“Matches” by Elle Weaver

“Tomorrow” by Eman Bright

“The Lost Cabin” by Miss Boo

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

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

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