Our December 2024 Flash Contest was based on Prompt #311 (provided by Stone Soup students Sage Millen, Meleah Goldman, and Emma Hoff), which asked that participants write a short story from a blizzard's perspective, a poem on your favorite part of winter, or create an artwork that shows light and darkness
As always, thank you to all who participated, and please keep submitting next month!
In particular, we congratulate our Honorable Mentions, listed below, and our Winners, whose work you can appreciate below.
Winners
"Snowflake" by Scarlett Yi, 13
"Snowflakes: A Winter's Tanka Poem" by Matthew Zhang, 13
"From the life we left" by Dara Jin, 11
"Waiting" by John Gabriel Sperl, 12
"Snowflake Light" by Tang Li, 12
Honorable Mentions
"The Wonders of Winter" by Evee Dev, 9
"BLIZZARD" by Julian Yang, 10
"My View" by Sharbani Datta, 10
"Winter's Breath" Haoran Yang, 11
"A New December Day: A Shakespearean Sonnet " by Erica Zhan, 12
Snowflake
Scarlett Yi, 13
Winter is a great time to have your heart leave you to
feel your ears redden with fire and
Be consumed by dire
Speed
I zoom
Across a field of
Hardened glinting crystals
Each one with a bitterly cold taste
And then
Fall and
Fly,
Faster
Than
Bliss
And
You
Can’t
Miss this feeling
Snowflakes: A Winter's Tanka Poem
Matthew Zhang, 13
Billions of small
Dancers, twirling in the sky
Falling slowly down
One flake after another
One flake after another
From the Life We Left
Dara Jin, 11
Moonlight shines on the frost
Lonesome flakes of snow
Drop onto the deep wide plane
The meadows bright under the moonlight
what once was gold is now white
Tree roots deep in the ground
Untouched
Unblemished
By the deep deep cold
Life disappears
one by one
into the lonesome cavern
of their home
the only life in sight
is single hare
snow white against the background
waiting for spring
the once burbling river
now silenced
by the murderous ice
the pine trees shagged thrice
sleeves of frost
and robes of snow
make winter forth
In the bright of the moon
glittering in malice
unblemished
untouched
Hundreds of miles away
a church bell tolls
midnight
in the middle of nowhere
An owl takes flight
the natural winter wonderland
of snow and ice
untouched
By man made design
trees swaying in the howling wind
snow stubbornly holding on
to life
Baubles of snow, of icicles, floating in the air
Frozen lakes, in the movement of nothing
underneath is a world of wonder
Powdery snow
glistening white
slowly falling
from the perch in the sky
into the wilderness
Untouched
unblemished
Nature recuperates from harm.
Waiting
John Gabriel Sperl, 12
of this chilly time,
is known to many
as something cherished and loved.
But for me,
living in the land of lost hills,
it’s a rarity,
a squandered treasure.
The silky sheets
of white galore,
covering everything
in beauty incarnate.
But now I watch
through the window,
and see nothing but
a sad tomorrow.
For the glassy brilliance
that so blessed the grass,
now lays waiting
up in the sky.
Snowflake Light
Tang Li, 12
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