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

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“Snow Dreams” by Gerald Daniels

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SNOW DREAMS January. The year one week old. Devilish winter day, spindrift circling madly about the courtyard, last season's perennial stems bent under a weight of snow. Fiona sitting in her chair staring out at the scene, stockinged legs outstretched on a woodpi...

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“Hopscotch on Ice” by Caroline White

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“Be careful,” my mom called. “Don’t worry,” I joked, “We won’t!” I grabbed Amelia’s hand and dashed out the door towards our hideout. I’m Luke Peterson. Me and my eight-year old sister, Amelia, built a hideout by the lake four years ago. She was three at the time and I was eight. Every winter, the lake freezes over and we watch the snow over the woods behind the lake. But the year when I was twelve and Amelia was seven… Well, let's just say that was different. Amelia slid her hat over her practically frozen ears. “It’s c-c-cold,” she said, t...

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“Grounded” by Izzy Bavaro

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Margo stares out her plane window as a bitter storm scatters snow around the runways like dry sand across a desert plain. Just my luck, Margo groans as she looks out at the weather knowing it won't let up soon. The weatherman really got it wrong this time, she thinks to herself while imagining the starry night that was supposed to illuminate the sky that night. Her flight boarded just before the storm rolled in, stopping the plane—and her plans—dead in their tracks. Everyone on-board the plane has been complaining and calling the flight atte...

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“First Snow” by Morgan Elbert

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“I’m sorry, but there’s nothing else we can do at this point,” the doctor’s voice rang in Selene’s ears. She turned her head away, looking out at the falling snow that drifted, oh so delicately, swimming about in the air. Her eyes burned and her throat tightened. It wasn’t unexpected, what the doctor said, but it wasn’t what she had hoped to hear. She focused harder on the snow. Two large flakes drifted down together, touching at their edges, breaking apart as they struck the iron light down below. “Mis...

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“A Frozen Life” by Jennifer Hansley

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Philip Bartholomew hated his last name. He hated this 5,500 square foot home, and he hated his job. Mostly though, he just hated this snow. The great, fluffy flakes rained from above, creating a winter wonderland. Children dreamed of this weather. Not him. He did not like kids either. Why did everyone have to be walking around, singing Jingle Bells simply because it snowed? Christmas was a month in the past, thank goodness. Philip did not think he could have handl...

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“A Drowning at Calvin Lake ” by Kanden Lang

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Trigger Warning: mentions of domestic abuse, alcoholism, drowning.Ren shielded her eyes against the light glinting off the snow. She swept her gaze over her surroundings, scanning the untouched blanket of white disguising the terrain beneath it.She hadn’t expected such a loud shattering sound to ring out into the woods when it happened. The ice, hidden under the same layer of powder as the rest of the landscape, couldn’t have been more than a few inches thick. The lake below couldn’t have been less than fifteen feet deep.He should have notic...

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“Winter” by Lyddia Rose

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Peering out my window after shutting off my alarm, I can tell that there is at least three more inches of snow on the ground. There was six to begin with; so now, there is almost a foot. I tear my eyes away from the window before I can start admiring everything about the winter wonderland outside. I get dressed for the day, pulling on my warmest clothes, preparing for the inevitable freezing air. There is a fire going downstairs, but I don't have time to sit there. I scarf down a hot breakfast and grab my backpack from the chair next to me, ...

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“The Perfect Snow Day” by John Meiners, Jr

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The Perfect Snow DaySamantha and Jesse sit at the table having coffee. It's eleven in the morning, and they stare out of the window in silence at the snow. "How long since it snowed?" Jesse asks. ”About... seven years I think, and it wasn't this heavy. Let's go sledding“ "We don't have a sled, and there are no hills." "Party pooper, Jesse." ”It's cold out there, Samantha." ”Snowball fight?” “Samantha, my reflexes and throwing ability are unmatched." Samantha asks, "Did you get the paper this morning?" Je...

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“Frozen hands and warm hearts” by Horrendous Pegasus

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The coldest weather can create the warmest of hearts-Aanya stared out at the white world through her window. The way the snow caressed everything it touched, the cool wind that howled as it passed by, the delicate snowflakes falling daintily down-she tried to remember it all.Aanya remembered a lot, for a seven year old.She remembered the woman she called mother-though that seemed to be aeons ago.She did not remember her father- all her mind supplied was a kind smile, eyes that were growing dim, and someone sickly lying on a poor makeshift be...

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“How I hate snow ” by Connie De Sousa

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It's a snowy morning. I hear the wind whipping it around the house. The vinyl siding on one side of the house rattles incensidly. A catalyst for the snow begging to enter the warm confines of our humble dwelling. The heater kicks in but I don't feel it's warmth immediately. The heater is working fine but the house still feels so cold. I think it could be just my imagination. I tuck myself deeper into the couch cushion and the blanket that Jack lovingly wrapped around me before he left for work. I let out a low whine and will myself to go bac...

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“The Difference a Life Makes” by Joe Swanson

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Raining, not unusual here in this time, not the time I’m used to, in my backlogged memories of January. Being from a place where you live unwound, spinning, bumping into seasons, their offerings hard to forget. Frozen fingers, icicled eyelids, the crack of the cold smashing into the trees, the shrieking as their blood expands, exploding gun shots in the dark of thirty below. Why remain within the grasp of what could kill you; did murder some, but always forga...

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“Books and Maps” by Keri Dyck

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Renae’s head jerked up, and she dropped her dog-eared copy of The Hobbit to the floor. What was that? The window was behind her, and she’d have to get out of her comfy spot to check it out. She untangled herself from her blanket, which had somehow wound its way around the end table’s leg, and her tea cup clattered to the floor. Her book was instantly soaked in Earl Grey. She gave a cry and picked it up, then placed it carefully above a heating vent. “Please dry out nicely.” The frost on the window made the outside invisible, ...

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“Mr. Tickle Bones” by Shalini Nathan

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I traced a heart on the moisture condensed on the window and wrote the two words and eleven letters enmeshed in my heart: T.I.C.K.L.E B.O.N.E.S The weather wasn’t getting any better and I was afraid I won’t be able to take Timothy to the Cemetery as promised. I sighed leaning on the window panel, head next to the heart I drew, I looked out at the snow drifts and ice caps covering the neighborhood, I must remind Mrs. Magnolia to notify the community to start digging out the snow once the storm passes. Things have never been ...

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“The Right Thing” by Zayna Rahman

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She ran her slim fingers over the cool, frozen glass. Soft snowfell gracefully to the ground, swayed by the wind. That small flake was lost amongst the snowfields. A sigh escaped her as she turned her back to the window, unwelcome memories swarming at the back of her mind. Too late, she was already reminiscing. In the winter of 1990, a young boy by the name of Alex Mendoza ran past mountains of thick white snow and stumbled over stray patches of grass. His icy blue eyes were full of fear, but somehow hope too. “Alex!” she yelled ...

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“FUN” by Sylvia Lucas

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Anne put down her book,it was pretty boring. Most romance novels were entirely predictable, she thought, and wondered if she really felt in the mood to read on for a further one hundred and fifty pages to the inevitable blissful kiss. She got up from her armchair and walked over to the window and drew aside the heavy dark red curtains. It was still snowing. It had been falling since lunch time in large, heavy-looking flakes. The porch light showed how deep it was piling up on the deck railings. Pretty. Pretty worrying too if the snow plough ...

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

Submissions are closed

✍️ 233 stories

“Snow Dreams” by Gerald Daniels

“Hopscotch on Ice” by Caroline White

“Grounded” by Izzy Bavaro

“First Snow” by Morgan Elbert

“A Frozen Life” by Jennifer Hansley

“A Drowning at Calvin Lake ” by Kanden Lang

“Winter” by Lyddia Rose

“The Perfect Snow Day” by John Meiners, Jr

“Frozen hands and warm hearts” by Horrendous Pegasus

“How I hate snow ” by Connie De Sousa

“The Difference a Life Makes” by Joe Swanson

“Books and Maps” by Keri Dyck

“Mr. Tickle Bones” by Shalini Nathan

“The Right Thing” by Zayna Rahman

“FUN” by Sylvia Lucas

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

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.

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

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