Microfiction
Snow Isn't the Same as an Adult
I huff as I, out of breath and exhausted, strain to push the shovel full of heavy snow off the driveway. We got nine inches of snow today... and I have to be able to get out of my driveway in the morning to go to work. That means I get to spend my Sunday evening clearing this driveway. As I force myself to push through the exhaustion and keep shoveling, I reminisced about how awesome snow was when I was a kid.
By Austin Blessing-Nelson (Blessing)3 years ago in Fiction
Silence the Wisdom. Top Story - February 2024. Content Warning.
"Make sure your boots straps are tight" ordered Molly in a friendly but firm tone. "Yessss Mom" Sally replied, rolling her eyes for being talked to like a child. After all, she was 14 and knew how to put on a pair of boots.
By G. A. Botero3 years ago in Fiction
Happy To Wait. Top Story - February 2024.
Birdseed slips between gloved fingers. Your body trembles from the cold, and from the strain of remaining still for many long minutes. Shifting slightly, you lean more heavily on the back porch’s low banister. Hands jut into the white abyss, bearing a small, dark, shaky offering.
By Gabriel Huizenga3 years ago in Fiction
"Ethereal Frost"
In the heart of a mystical snow-covered realm, where every snowflake gracefully falling held a whisper of destiny, hope and the moon's glow held ancient secrets leading as far back as the first snow fall, resided being named SnowdenDreamweaver, a benevolent woven in the fabric of winter dreams. This ethereal entity possessed the extraordinary gift of blessing lives with uncountable things, but mostly unforeseen wonders.
By Kristen Bansfield -Pen Name K.R.Fields3 years ago in Fiction
Funeral Pyre. Top Story - February 2024.
This was written for the Snow Micro Challenge. --- They’d passed through this forest before. He sensed traces of her magic still—in the air, among the trees, in the snow that had thawed and reformed countless times over. The trail was faint, but it would have to do.
By Marie Sinadjan3 years ago in Fiction
Saber Tooth
The snowfall was increasing, and the distance of clear visibility was rapidly diminishing. Ellie was anxious, whining to be off leash so she could frolic in the snow, but I saw the coyotes before she did which forced me to immediately increase the tension on her leash.
By Kale Sinclair3 years ago in Fiction
