"My girlfriend and I get snowed in at an old friends house."
It was the first weekend of December and I’d spent a few days down South to see my girlfriend, Bela for a long weekend. We were staying at her student house which is always fun but Bela is just so...
"Lucy enjoys a fun day in the mountains"
The sun burned into her eyes as it crept over the snow covered peaks of the mountains. Lucy waited outside the chalet in the crisp morning air. A van drew up, "Allo Lucy, 'ow are you?" Leo asked in heavily...
"Sometimes friends become lovers."
I only went to the cabin that weekend because Sylvia and George were good friends of Lisbeth. We had been dating for a few months. Sylvia and George had rented the cabin for the month of January and invited us...
"Change is about letting go of pain and taking risks, something Elowyn couldn't do."
"Don't you love Christmas?" My best friend, Maggie exclaimed. "Maggie. We went over this.""No, we didn't.""We did. Suit yourself Maggie."It was December 5th, and Maggie was begging me to go Christmas shopping with her. I hate Christmas, and always have....
She stared out at the newly fallen snow, amazed at how itsparkled like a star strewn field, kissed by the sun. If only she could capture that it and describe the wonder, the beauty, the magic in a single word....
"Mary and Christina meet in a very unusual way."
There was no way to foresee what had brought me to the conclusion, but I knew there had to be more to life. I didn’t know if it would be better or worse at that point, only that it needed...
"What a wonderful winter"
Jim's Gran – What a Wonderful Winter It was the year I turned 18. I was just finishing my final year at High School. My Mother and Father had taken my younger brother and gone to Australia on vacation and...
"Our camping trip is interrupted - and improved - by a freak storm."
(Author's note: Yes, this is a Holiday Contest entry, and yes, I am cheating, sort of.)Our sleeping bags zip together perfectly, something we discovered by accident a few trips ago, and have taken shameless and wanton advantage of ever since....
