Start your story with someone looking out the window and seeing the first snowfall of the season.

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“Secrets of the Snow” by Meera Collier

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My neighbors disappeared last December. Susan and Marty were a troubled couple—he drank too much, she was the angry one. In the summertime, when we all had the windows open, we would hear the shouting and slamming of furniture. We decided that we would rather brave the heat than listen to them fighting. So it came to no one’s real surprise that Marty didn’t show up to work one December morning. That’s what the detectives told us. Detective Crenshaw knocked on our door in the afternoon, asking if we had seen anything unusual going on at Susa...

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“The Snowflakes of My Life” by Susan De Bartoli

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Standing by the window, I listen to the wind and watch as it twirls the snow upwards reliving the moment of the first snowfall of the season. Holding a hot cocoa close to my body I can feel the warmth which sweeps away the chill. I remember days gone by! My childhood, the frost on the windows, the longing for my mother’s arms to hold me and take the chill from my body. There was no cocoa, no heat, just a chill that never went away until my mother’s arms held me close and made me warm again. The winter nights were cold, and we children woul...

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“First Snowfall ” by Zoe C

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First Snowfall We looked at each other in hesitant expectation, Flora grasped one curtain while I held the other and on the count of three we drew them back with a dramatic flourish. The morning window had come alive with blossoming swathes of clear ferns and fronds that glinted and dazzled with unfathomably complex etched patterns. Flora hung back amazed, but I put my head close to the glass, until I could feel the chill burning from it. I stuck out my tongue, and the pink tip touched the ice cold, sending an electric thrill through...

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“Snowflake Wishes” by Tara Carey

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"This town gets trashier and trashier" Lou folded his arms across his chest, and gazed out the transaction windows. It was the first snowfall of the year. I had been staring out the same portal, mesmerized by the newly falling snow. The light flakes swirled and danced occasionally sticking to the window then rapidly disintigrating into tiny drops of moisture. It took a moment for me to focus my eyes past the thin rivulets of water but I managed to give him my atten...

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“Jenna's Snow Story” by Jennifer Leckie

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The snow covered the prairie town in a fine layer of icing like you see on top of a wedding cake thought Jenna as she gazed outside upon the beginning of December. “This isn’t going to last very long,” thought Jenna to herself as she peered out the window of her 1200 square foot comfortable cozy 1957 home nestled in the quaint older neighborhood of a typical small Canadian town. “El Nino is upon us, and we are very lucky right now with these fantastic temperatures,” she smiles and looks at her beautiful Golden Retriever Maremma sheep...

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“Snow and Wonder” by Brini Zaleski

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Veronica stared outside in amazement. The world was white. The big tree in the backyard, white! Her play set, white! Even where there was supposed to be grass was white! Veronica could look at it all day. “Veronica, do you wanna go play in the snow after breakfast?” her mama asked. Veronica turned with eyes wide and her hands still on the glass of the window. She nodded enthusiastically. Her mother scooped her up and took her down the stairs to the kitchen. Once placed on the floor, her feet quickly became uncomfortable. The tile was...

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“Last Mid-West Winter” by Michael Moran

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John fogged the windowpane in the kitchen with his breath then palmed a circle in its center. His hand slid across the cold glass making a squeaking noise. “Here it comes,” He sighed. And there you are.” He saw his first snowflake of the winter season fall, drifting and twisting past then disappear. It was the final warning. Winter had arrived. The signs had come and gone. The neighborhood kids had gone back to school a couple months ago. The yellow school buses threaded the narrow streets to pick up packs of kids, kids standing with par...

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“No Place Like Home” by Dylan Martin

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“It always amazes me, the magic that can be made from doing something as simple as dropping asbestos from the sky.” “What’s that, dear?” “Look,” she says, pointing out the window, towards the sight of the season’s first snowfall, “we must be doing the poppy scene today.” “That’s snow, honey.” “Darling,” she says, turning to him, “it is the middle of July, we are in Southern California, shooting on-site at the studio—where would they have found snow?” “Oh, right, that’s where we are today.” “Of course that is where we are, s...

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“Release” by Marilyn McCottrell

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Flakes drifted and danced in the air before they landed. He'd forgotten the peace of simply gazing out of a window. If this hadn't been the day, he may have wished to sit there on that bench forever. He would have longed for hot chocolate and one jumbo marshmallow, like when he was a boy, allowed just once a year to sip a mug held in careful hands on the couch in Mama's living room. That's what she called it. My living room. And she meant it. Every place else, like in Eden, was fair game, but her living room was forbidden, except the first s...

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“Snow on Evergreen Way” by Kate Caraballo

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Snow on Evergreen Way Sara sat in the reading chair by the window and watched as the large white clumps of snow began to fall. It was late this year, the day after Thanksgiving, the refrigerator bulging with curdling gravy, green beans, turkey, and pie. She remembered last year; the city had seen at least two snowfalls long before the holiday. Greg placed her cup of black coffee on the side table. He grabbed her left hand and ...

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“Forgive us our Sins” by Kale M

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I didn’t think I would see it this year. As I sit perched in my freezing attic, cross legged on the uneven wood floor nested in blankets, I make my observations. I can’t sleep- and why should I? I am accustomed to the quiet, to the uncertain temperatures, to the sounds of whatever it is that lives in the charred ghost of the woods now. I have made myself like the scratchy, pilled cotton blankets stored up here. But it has been three years and I must sit in my makeshift observation tower ducked ...

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“The Last First Snowfall” by DIEGO FOXX

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The ice cube rattled noisily in the small pool of bourbon in his glass tumbler as he placed it on the small table beside his wooden chair. He squinted as he peered out his window into his small, neglected backyard. He had lit a solitary candle and the shadows danced in the room around him. If the evening news weather report was correct, this would be the night. A thousand moments. A million regrets. His body looked older than the years lived. His tired arms folded across his chest and then lowered into his l...

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“Snowed in the Matrix” by Brittany Anderson

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I looked out of the wide windows of the Smith & Bernard Bank building overlooking the city's grid of diverse buildings and noticed flakes of the first snow making their slow drift downwards. I sighed as I thought about how I’ll miss it due to the number of meetings I had today. One short half an hour for lunch. Each day seems to fly by but also feel like an entire year. I winced thinking about how I’ll have to do this for the next 30 or more years. How could I, possibly?Sleep, eat, work, eat, work, eat, sleep. Squeeze hobbies and sociali...

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“The Persistence of Time” by Karley Greene

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“It’s a dangerous thing, you know.” You said peering out the window. The room was dimly lit and shadows danced around your face as you tilted your head up. “Snow?” I chuckled, knowing that you had been vague on purpose to prompt me to inquire further. You pressed your lips together in a half grin and shrugged. I don’t remember your response. — The snow came down even harder the following year and had started about a quarter past midnight. You had brought me hot chocolate, I remember because it burnt my tongue for the next few day...

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“Seasons” by Laura Noriega

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The golden window trim framed the view outside of Balthazar as if it were a painting. Snow coated cars, roads, and restaurant seating tents, while snowflakes fell and flickered in the winter sun, a blend of blue and pink glitter against the clouds and rose gold sky. It reminded Margo of some holiday cards she had seen before; too dreamlike to be pretty, too perfect to be cheerful. And yet, outside, the snow was real and hopeful.“I had never seen snowfall before. Not, you know, in person,” Margo chirped. She was seated in a booth, facing Noah...

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Start your story with someone looking out the window and seeing the first snowfall of the season.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 86 stories

“Secrets of the Snow” by Meera Collier

“The Snowflakes of My Life” by Susan De Bartoli

“First Snowfall ” by Zoe C

“Snowflake Wishes” by Tara Carey

“Jenna's Snow Story” by Jennifer Leckie

“Snow and Wonder” by Brini Zaleski

“Last Mid-West Winter” by Michael Moran

“No Place Like Home” by Dylan Martin

“Release” by Marilyn McCottrell

“Snow on Evergreen Way” by Kate Caraballo

“Forgive us our Sins” by Kale M

“The Last First Snowfall” by DIEGO FOXX

“Snowed in the Matrix” by Brittany Anderson

“The Persistence of Time” by Karley Greene

“Seasons” by Laura Noriega

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Start your story with a description of the cold, using lots of sensory detail.

Write a story where someone shares a cup of hot chocolate with a friend.

Your character hates the holidays, and jets out of town every year — but a historic snow storm means that this time, they can’t make their escape.

Write about a character emerging from hibernation, whether literally or metaphorically.

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