Snowflakes are like humans - no two are the same, but this is where the similarities end... Sculpted, with imagination, love & magic, each snowflake has a soul. Ruled by the Snow Queen, snowflakes are called White Bees. She’s ensures every snowflake’s story’s...

Pain exploded in Max’s leg; the shrapnel punctured his thigh like a cocktail stick in an hors-d'oeuvre. Jess was slumped forward, her hair straggled around her face; concealing the damage. “Jess?” He called out weakly. ‘Please be ok!’ he prayed. His battered body...

The Snow Princess “Cute.” The single word echoed around the throne room. The queen looked up, into the shadows by the door. “Who’s there?” she called, her tone cold and authoritative. A figure stepped into the light and the queen raised an eyebrow. It was a child. She...

Gerda watched the passersby, drudging through the ice and darkness. Even from the relative comfort of her seat on the bus, she had no sympathy for them. She was resolute, focused solely on the task of finding her husband. She was the only hope he had. Even his parents...

Gerda and Kai met and fell deeply in love when they were just 15 years old. Now both aged 75 they had spent 60 beautiful years together through summers, springs, autumns and winters learning and loving and growing together. A cold hard winter brought storms their way...

A bitter, destructive wind wrapped itself around the mountain, enveloping the landscape in an endless torrent of snow. The storm howled around the frozen peaks while malevolent clouds covered the sky. Across the mountain all signs of life had been destroyed: swept...

The world looks so strange, reflected in a wall of ice: partly fractured, partly re-formed and re-interpreted, hypnotic, unrecognisable and fascinating: like looking in a broken mirror. Break the ice; return truth and goodness in an avalanche. I pressed my hand...

My name is Kai, and I am mad. I know this because I have been locked up in this freezing asylum – “the Palace” – because of the snowflakes thing. No-one visits me here. The only person I ever see – aside from the snowflakes – is the Matron, who prefers to be called...

A home. Not a happy one. Kai is in it. He is enraged. He has smashed his TV. When Mum asks why, Kai snarls and slams the door. He can’t say he did it because he saw his refection. Maybe she knows anyway. After all, he smashed two mirrors last week. Kai doesn’t know...

Lorn Twinkler, the ice queen, sits upon her throne so beautiful and so alone. The sound of a pair of solitary footsteps echo into the throne room. A young woman walks up. She is very beautiful in her own right. “I’m your biggest fan!” The young woman is emphatic as...

“This is extraordinary!” said Professor Andersen, scanning the radiographer’s report with his expert eye. “And this patient is still alive?” It was more a statement than a question, but Dr Hans nodded. “That’s not all, Prof.” He cleared his throat, looking a little...

“Isn’t beautiful Kev? The frost makes everything look a fairy story...” “I can’t say I see it as you do. But at least dad’s not expecting me to help on the allotment today.” “Oh come on, let’s build a snowman before the ‘Ill Wind’ comes!” “Oh for goodness sake Gracie,...

Ice skating ‘How cold it is in here…’ he said. Her flat was beautiful: polished floorboards, white walls, shelves neatly crammed with books, ordered by size and colour of the cover . Many were white or silver. “Is it? I don’t really notice it. I’ll put some heating...

She told me how her ski’s skimmed the snow as she traversed through the forest at the speed of the devil. I could only imagine the sight of her as she covered the ground, sound deadened by the silence of winter. I wondered if she really was going that fast, prone as...

Kai clasped Gerda’s hand tightly. “Thank you, Gerda. Let’s go home.” They paused to watch a snowflake dance before them. Then another. And another. “They’re so beautiful,” Gerda breathed. Kai tugged her hand. “We must hurry. The Snow Queen has many tricks.” A...

Gerda hugged Kai as tightly as she could. “Oh, Kai! I’ve been looking so long for you. I’m so relieved you’re ok.” It cut Gerda deeply when Kai shrugged her off and stepped back several paces. She looked closely at him to see if the Snow Queen’s spell had completely...

The Snow Queen stood at the window, fists clenched to stop herself from burying Kai and his saviour in an avalanche. If she did, she’d never find out how the fiend had escaped. Sweeping her robes behind her she turned to follow, but a shimmering pool near the wall...

Gerda hugged Kai tightly. So happy to have her best friend back, not the cruel boy he’d become before disappearing. Kai gently pulled back and held both her hands in his. “Gerda, we must flee at once. The Snow Queen has many tricks.” Gerda nodded. “Let’s go home.” She...

Kai peered through the shot glass he was holding, and his vision of the world became distorted. The amber liquor in his glass swirled in golden ribbons like the colorful sheen of oil floating on a water puddle. Kai swallowed the contents, and the liquor burned a fiery...

The middle of winter: snowy, blowy and cold. The desk sergeant looked up as the man entered the station. He saw an elderly gent, stooped, walking with a stick, in a hurry, agitated. A lost pet, or maybe a noisy neighbour. “Yes sir.” “She’s back!” The vehemence was a...

By my father in Heaven I was damned. In darkness. In emptiness. My cage lined with obsidian daggers and lost inside the deepest cavern. Bound by wrists and ankles with unbreakable bonds that cut in deep. Vile deformities twist my angelic frame. My wings are reptilian,...

Once upon a time, broken-hearted Gerda slumped to the ground at Tays' grave. Holding a withered rose, clutching it to her chest; it crumbles, the dust of rose encircles her in the breeze. Suddenly, an icy hand grips her shoulder, icicle fingers gouge her skin. Hissing...

Never has there lived so wicked a woman in all the time of telling tales. Or is the truth more deeply hidden? Her sleigh skipped across the frozen waves that covered the country paths. The pace was quick. Snow slipped across the mare's sweat-slicked flanks. Yet...

Many moons ago, in a land so distant from our own you could mistake it for another dimension, lived a girl called Lumikki. Being an only child, she yearned for a kindred spirit so intensely she felt the weight of the desire, so every night she wished with all her...

sorry i had to do this Submitted by: Madeline Crawford

His teeth clenched, biting and holding back his own tears. The bitterness building in the back of his mouth. Fluid perpetrating and tracing down his trachea. Mucus was blistering inside of his torrid esophagus. The collapsing and opening of his airways were harsh and...

The drums were beating like her heart in her chest; Ba-bomp, Ba-bomp. Lady Dharma stood beside the funeral pyre, her red robe billowing in the breeze, the heat of the flames kissing her face as a tear rolled down it. In her wildest dreams, Lady Dharma had never...

The Snow Queen re-writing contest was over and the three judges of the contest stood one by one on the cemetery that held the grave of Hans Christian Andersen as they began to recite the top entries. The trio consisted of a skinny man, a tall woman, and a loud-mouth...

"Gerda." Kai shivered as he laid on the icy floor of his captors frozen palace. "How did you find me?" He coughed as he spoke. "Hush now." Gerda replied tenderly as she removed her scarf to place it around Kai's neck. "She could be back at any..." Gerda was cut short,...

The blizzard stung Greda’s eyes and she tugged on her cloak. The snow crunched under her boots which were too big, taken from the bandits that had been foolish enough to try and abduct her. Her numb hands gripped the spear with its glass, pointed head. The glass was...

The Snow Queen was broken. She wept bitterly for seven years, and for seven years there was only summer. The people called it ‘The Great Summer.’ Kay and Gerda had a daughter called Mirror. Mirror was born with a strange gift, she could mend anything broken with a...

The girl looked at the stable boy. She brushed the snow-white hair away from her face and continued looking at the boy who now seemed to caress the horse. Loath resided in the girl's heart where love had once been. The boy turned around and froze. His moonlit face...

I trudged through the thick, pearly, snow. It’s coldness trapping my body as my only source of heat was my crimson cloak. I stood out like a deer in headlights throughout the disturbing woods. I didn’t know what I was doing, feeling, or breathing. But it felt right....

A young lads dream Submitted by: William Glyn Rees

Far away , far from all the eyes of people who live in the earth . Up in the frozen mountain, where most of the year it is cold. There was a place no one knows about it except who lives in it. It is called the area of wonder. There was a small group of creatures...

There once were three sisters, Angelica, Francesca, and Evangeline. They were born to a world where magic was commonplace. The oldest, Angelica, could heal any plant with a touch of a finger. The middle sister, Francesca, had the coldest touch but the warmest heart....

The Snow Queen glided through the biting wind that protected her castle of ice, returning to her stolen boy. The warmer countries had been torched with cold flames of snow and the queen felt quite satisfied with her work. She passed through her front door, wincing at...