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

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“ IT IS ALWAYS FOR THE BEST” by Suman Saxena

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It was a fine day. Anubhav reached office well in time. For the past three years he had never been late even once. His colleagues often teased him for his punctuality but his boss was very happy. He often praised Anubhav for his diligence, dedication, sincerity, zeal and resourcefulness to take up any kind of assignments and projects and complete them innovatively and dynamically. He had won the heart of his boss here also like in Mumbai. He still remembered that day when he had started believing whatever happens in one’s life is always...

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“Mind maze in the workplace” by Amy McInally

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The mind maze in the workplace It was January it was cold and I was sat alone at the middle coffee table when finally the phone rang, it was Colin my second Boss who was in a lower position to my actual boss Hillary "Yeah Jenny we are going to have to ask you to sit tight for now until the roads clear there's no way out at the moment, it's very dangerous and the snow is still falling heavy, help yourself to anything in the fridge and call me if you need to", said Colin. I put the phone down and sat back down at the middle table, ...

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“The blizzard that revealed” by Bob Menaces

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“Being stuck at the workplace during a blizzard is no joke. Many things can occur; your children could go crazy being home alone and go through your things in your room and find your hidden stash of cannabis, they could find your adult toys that you have hidden in your closet in a shoe box, or they could destroy the house trying to get warm. One can only pray they don’t start a fire”. Debra said this to Wendy as if it had happened to her once and she just waited until she finished because they had been drinking for the last hour. The blizzar...

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“Unheard History” by Kiera Nonnenmacher

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Every place in the world has a history. Whether a school building used to be an orphanage or a hospital used to be an insane asylum. In my case, my school has a history that no one would have expected. It was December 15th 1998, at exactly 4:30 pm, when a blizzard appeared out of nowhere. We were on Christmas break, but Alex, Willow, Cecelia, Esme, Carol, Amber, Chelsea, Carla, and I were at the school. We had Volleyball practice but our coaches left early due to a family event so we were the only ones in the school. "What a bummer!...

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“REASON FOR PROMOTION” by Joseph Smith

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“Right then, who’s coming to the pub?” Angela, returning at that moment from her daily ritual of locking herself in a focus booth, blinked at Daniel. “It’s three in the afternoon.” “Oh, so much for spending the past hour ‘sorting your Outlook’, Ange,” Daniel said. “Thomas sent an email around the whole office telling us to finish early. Security and all. Blizzard en route.” Tobie looked up from his copy of the email. His mouth half opened before his eyes dipped back to his spreadsheet. “You better be nearly done,” Phil said, leaning and ...

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“Exploration” by Brenda Butler

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Exploration She thought this would be like any other day, but she should have known better. No two days were the same in that place. Bad things did not happen per say, just strange things. Things no one bothered to investigate nor seem to care. It was cold and getting colder. She grabbed her scarf and matching gloves, of course. Purple, her favorite color. Her black wool coat and she was out the door and headed to the office. Smith, Logan & Free was the largest law firm in town and was in the biggest building in...

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“Stue's Sleaze” by Sedef T

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Fuck Stue. Molly leaned back in her chair, as the fluorescent lights above her flickered. She had seen him from the corner of her eye, shuffling his fat ass over to her cubicle. She had made it a point to not look his way, in the vain hope that if she didn’t, maybe he wouldn’t talk to her. She had ignored him up until his stomach was touching her backrest, and Molly could smell the scent of sour, stale crackers that always seemed to follow Stue for some reason. Even then, she only turned around when he tapped her shoulder. “Oh! Gosh Stue, so...

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“Personnel Matters” by Bill Richter

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Will pulled his hands out of his coat pockets and rubbed them together before knocking on the front door of the office. The temperature had dropped at least twenty degrees during the day and was now somewhere around twenty-five degrees with a warning of a blizzard coming sooner rather than later in the day. He was a little underdressed for the weather with just his black hoodie sweatshirt and long tan Carhartt jacket over a t-shirt and a thin pair of mittens to keep him warm. He could see Gina inside at the reception desk and even with her h...

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“Home unexpected” by Maria Dolores Belen

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“Well, that’s that. Sheriff just radioed to say that the pass is closed.” My boss Martha pounded globs of wet, sticky snow off of her boots on the doorframe. “I don’t know how you all manage this weather every year,” I stated from behind the counter, as far away from the frigid blast of wind entering our little camp store. It was my first work camping position, part of my husband's and my final foray into non-traditional living before unwillingly settling back into the nine-to-five grind. We saved up enough to travel full-time in a l...

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“Behind closed doors” by A FL

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It was a Friday afternoon, and the faint snowing that had been going on all morning started to intensify. The wind was howling as Jonathan hurried to get the job done before the blizzard would make it impossible to take his car and go home. He looked with anxiety through the window, seeing the snow pile up on his car. It was already buried, and barely recognizable. The data he had to enter on the computer seemed endless, and he had to finish it before leaving work. His boss, William, insisted on it like it was a matter of life or death. Jona...

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“The Speakeasy” by Mollin Luxeder

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“And there’s more snow on the way. Looks like another record-setting blizzard. All citizens are advised to stay indoors from now until tomorrow afternoon. Now back to your favorite jazz musician, Louis Armstrong, on this, January 29th, 1925.” Geraldine turned down the radio as the music once again issued from the machine. “Sounds like it’s really gonna be a big one tonight!” she shouted across the room. Even without the weather report, she knew that New York was in for a heavy storm. The wind and snow had been rattling the windows for the la...

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“Anti-Epiphanies” by Alicia Wang

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Outside it was snowing. The tops of the cars just barely peaked out of the snowdrift encasing their doors, faintly lit by the orange streetlights, half-obscured by the foggy windows of the office building, the one on the 5th floor. It was too late to bother checking the time, an action rendered unnecessary by the yawns and groans of the two stragglers who’d unwittingly chosen to spend the night. The quiet was punctured by light cursing from one, no doubt frantically scrolling through the News app illuminating his face like some 21st ce...

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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

✍️ 162 stories

“ IT IS ALWAYS FOR THE BEST” by Suman Saxena

“Mind maze in the workplace” by Amy McInally

“The blizzard that revealed” by Bob Menaces

“Unheard History” by Kiera Nonnenmacher

“REASON FOR PROMOTION” by Joseph Smith

“Exploration” by Brenda Butler

“Stue's Sleaze” by Sedef T

“Personnel Matters” by Bill Richter

“Home unexpected” by Maria Dolores Belen

“Behind closed doors” by A FL

“The Speakeasy” by Mollin Luxeder

“Anti-Epiphanies” by Alicia Wang

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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 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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