Action-Adventure Short Stories
Operation Slush Fund
The target was moving fast, and the snow was turning into a grey, sucking soup that wanted to steal Sam’s boots. Read this Short Story
Adventure Short Stories
The Weight of What Was Taken
In a world swallowed by snow, Ted corners the thief who stole his family’s last hope for survival. Read this Short Story
Coming-of-Age Short Stories
Icebound Reckoning
The Forks, a winter day, two friends chasing an adventure, a hopeful blur against the frigid Winnipeg canvas. Read this Short Story
The Antikythera Mechanism of Grandma Jean
A chase across a groaning frozen lake. A shattered heirloom. A secret buried deep in the snow just as their parents arrive. Read this Short Story
The Solstice Anomaly
A crystalline spire of impossible geometry pierces the frozen river, and the hum it emits isn’t in their ears, but in their bones. Read this Short Story
Contemporary Fiction Short Stories
The Glass Between Breaths
Under the vast winter sky, a quiet artist and a star hockey player find a common language in shovels and silence. Read this Short Story
The Glitch in the Snow
My family moved to the middle of nowhere to unplug. Then a snowman appeared holding my gaming controller. Read this Short Story
The Testimony of Whisperwood
A young law student must represent an ancient forest in a bizarre court case against a tech billionaire’s bio-resort. Read this Short Story
Cozy Mystery Short Stories
The Provencher Cipher
The city’s sudden, profound silence was broken only by a gasp as his flashlight illuminated the yellowed envelope. Read this Short Story
Crime Procedural Short Stories
a Glacial Circuit
The city exhaled a blizzard of light and logic, and from his window, Kevin watched the world being overwritten. Read this Short Story
What the Ice Keeps
Pulling a locked strongbox from a frozen lake, a grieving teen unearths a decade-old disappearance and a new purpose. Read this Short Story
Cyberpunk Short Stories
The Architect of Atonement
Trapped between bitter ice and burning guilt, an operative navigates a treacherous cyberpunk city for a desperate, final act of redemption. Read this Short Story
The Falcon Lake Static
Out on the frozen Trans-Canada, two couriers race a blizzard and their own paranoia. What they’re carrying is nothing, and everything. Read this Short Story
The Glacial Ballet
The skidoo tore across the frozen expanse, a phantom limb of desperate flight. Two strangers, bound by chrome and ice, hurtled towards an uncertain dawn. Read this Short Story
The Memory-Latte
In a snow-choked Winnipeg of 2025, a data courier with anxious, glowing tattoos seeks refuge in a rare analog cafe, only to be cornered by a rival who wants the chip she’s carrying. Read this Short Story
The Quantum Mirror
Forced on a digital detox, a grieving child finds the ghost of their AI friend bleeding into a remote, frozen wilderness. Read this Short Story
Dark Comedy Short Stories
A Preliminary Report on Restorative Justice
The old man’s police report was a joke, but his plan to rob the mayor wasn’t. Now, we’re accomplices. Read this Short Story
Operation Gnome-Thaw
It wasn’t just that Grandpa smelled like a damp basement and snored like a dying badger. It was the eyes. Read this Short Story
Peter and the Inevitable Thaw
My boots left a trail of grey slush on the welcome mat. The bell above the door announced our arrival with a cheerful, inappropriate little jingle. Behind me, I dragged Mr. Flake, his bottom scraping unevenly against the floorboards. He was already beginning to glisten. Read this Short Story
The Unaccommodating Providence of Mr. Grizzleton
A simple winter road trip becomes a fight for survival inside a cabin where the amenities are actively trying to kill you. Read this Short Story
Domestic Thriller Short Stories
The Ice Beneath Us
The dead weight of him was a shock, a fifty-year betrayal of remembered strength, pulling her down toward the ice. Read this Short Story
The Thawing Glass
In a house frozen by snow and silence, siblings Elaine and Casey find a shivering girl at their door. Read this Short Story
Espionage / Spy Fiction Short Stories
The Woodpile Rule
The axe felt honest. Cold steel, heavy oak, a straight line of force. Everything else was a lie, and the cold was the only thing that didn’t care. Read this Short Story
Family Saga Short Stories
The Long Thaw
A century of harvesting ice from Lac Brumeux is a heavy legacy, and this warm winter threatens to sink it all. Read this Short Story
The Tree Line
The world outside the window was a white wall, and the world inside was shrinking with every breath. Read this Short Story
Fantasy Short Stories
The Barista at the Threshold
The only thing keeping me upright was the forward momentum of panic. My lungs burned, my phone was a dead brick of ice in my pocket, and the shapes in the swirling snow were getting closer. Then I saw it: a single, steamy window promising warmth on a frozen stretch of Portage Avenue. Read this Short Story
The Curse of Warmth
I stole the Sunstone to save us from the endless winter, but its warmth is a beacon for monsters. Read this Short Story
Gritty Realism Short Stories
The Whiteout Debt
“Don’t touch that!” I told my brother. But when a bag of money is half-buried near a plane crash, listening is the last thing on his mind. Read this Short Story
Historical Fiction Short Stories
The Winter of the Strike
The wind on Portage Avenue cut through Edith’s coat like glass. To escape the cold and the city tearing itself apart, she pushed open the door to a small cafe, a place where enemies drank from the same pot of coffee. Read this Short Story
Journalistic Short Stories
The December Protocol
The train stopped hours ago. He has a thermos of hot tea and a government-issue coat. He knows why we’re here. Read this Short Story
The Permafrost Papers
The data drive felt like a block of ice in my palm. Outside, the blizzard wasn’t weather anymore; it was the story, and it was trying to kill me. Read this Short Story
The Unmaking at Sparrow Lake
To divide their lives, a separated couple meets at their winter cabin. But the blizzard has other plans. Read this Short Story
Legal Thriller Short Stories
Exhibit C
The metal screamed, the briefcase flew, and I saw his face—Arthur Victor—watching my life’s work scatter across the floor. Read this Short Story
Literary Short Stories
The Frosty thief
The snow was a thief, stealing the horizon first, then the black line of the pines, then the world. Read this Short Story
Literary Fiction Short Stories
The Rotary Club of Lake Kitchigami
Maia expected to catch a trout, maybe a pickerel. Instead, the frozen Ontario lake gave her a perfectly preserved telephone. Read this Short Story
Military Fiction Short Stories
Cold Soak
The propane regulator is frozen, the bank account is empty, and Leo is thinking about signing a contract that might get him killed. It’s -35 in the bush. Read this Short Story
Minimalist Short Stories
A Quiet Reckoning
The axe was gone from its place in the shed, a small, cold void in the established order of his world. Read this Short Story
Mystery Short Stories
The Negative Space
He came looking for a missing artist, but found only a perfect ice sculpture and footprints that ended. Read this Short Story
The Only Tracks
The fire is dying and my brother is gone. His truck is in the drive, but the blizzard has erased all footprints. Except for mine. Read this Short Story
The Silence and the Sound
A boy, a cabin, and the deep winter silence. But something is out there, and Les is determined to find it. Read this Short Story
Noir Short Stories
The Zero Kelvin Betrayal
The machine died not with a bang, but with a wet, grinding cough that stripped the silence from the forest and replaced it with something heavier. Read this Short Story
Political Thriller Short Stories
A Division of the Cold
The engine ticked like a bomb counting down, a hot, metallic smell fouling the frozen air. He was upside down, held in place by the seatbelt biting into his collarbone, and the only sound besides the engine was the slow, wet drip of his own blood onto the crushed roof. Read this Short Story
Psychological Drama Short Stories
The Caucus in the Cold
Treason is a lot harder when your fingers are too frozen to hold the lighter. Read this Short Story
Whiteout Silence
The generator died at 11:17 PM. The hum that had filled every silence was gone, and the cold, which had been waiting just outside the windows, finally came in. Read this Short Story
Psychological Thriller Short Stories
Hoarfrost on the Windows
The frost on the glass looked like a map of a place he’d never been. Or maybe he had. Arthur couldn’t be sure anymore. In the silent, frozen cabin, the real enemy wasn’t the cold, but the thinning wall between memory and madness. Read this Short Story
Satire Short Stories
Static and the Snow
For two influencers, the difference between a staged survival and a real one is the deafening silence when the signal dies. Read this Short Story
Sticky Fingers in Sector Four
Arthur just wanted to catch a few walleye. Instead, he’s fifty miles from the nearest timmies with a frozen carburetor, a paranoid bureaucrat, and a duffel bag full of shredded state secrets. Read this Short Story
The Permafrost and Paperwork Prince
A prince would rather skate than save the world, but the Royal Bureau of Heroic Endeavors has other plans. Read this Short Story
The Scepter of Power and the Hearthside Accord
A weekend at the family cabin becomes a theatre of geopolitical conflict between two cousins over rival snow forts. Read this Short Story
The Stillness Protocol
A disgraced wellness influencer’s curated spiritual journey to the Canadian north collapses into a blizzard-bound farce of frozen tech. Read this Short Story
Variable Interest Rates on the Ice Road
The traction control light has been on since 2023, and the ice doesn’t care about my credit score. Read this Short Story
Slice of Life Short Stories
Unseasonable
The silence was the first thing. Not the resort-mandated, acoustically-engineered quiet of the Synergy Suites™, but a deep, unbranded silence. Read this Short Story
Sports Fiction Short Stories
Black Ice Gospel
The question hung in the frozen air, sharp as a skate blade against his throat. “You gonna just stare…” Read this Short Story
The Ghost in the Heater’s Hum
The rink’s ancient heater was running full blast again, a sign someone was secretly living in our locker room. Read this Short Story
Steampunk Adventures Short Stories
The Cold Arithmetic of Cogs
The great Heat-Cog fell silent. In the heart of the snow-bound city, an old artificer watched apathy freeze ambition. Read this Short Story
Stream of Consciousness Short Stories
The Hush Protocol
The city’s winter hum is gone. Not quiet, but absent—swallowed by a silence deeper than any snow could create. Read this Short Story
Surreal / Absurdist Short Stories
The Crystalline Family
His new family was perfect, flawless, and cold to the touch. Will suspected they were made of snow. Read this Short Story
The Thaw Came Early
Two disgraced biologists flee through a rotting winter landscape, pursued by creatures that should not exist. They take refuge in a remote cabin only to be flushed out by corporate hunters, forced into a mutated forest where the laws of nature have been terrifyingly rewritten. Read this Short Story
Western Style BL Short Stories
The Devil’s Own Luck
In a blinding blizzard, a trapper finds his wounded rival near death, forcing a terrible choice in his isolated shack. Read this Short Story
The Great Freeze-Out and the Whispering Highway
A winter road trip to Northwestern Ontario takes a sharp left turn into the peculiar when the old truck starts acting up, and the world outside the window just gets stranger. Read this Short Story
The Heavy Winter Sky
Sent to his grandfather’s remote winter ranch, city boy Devon finds an unexpected challenge not in the snow, but in his boisterous cousin, Cole. Read this Short Story
Young Adult (YA) Short Stories
The Creature and the Ledger
The charcoal dust on her fingers felt suddenly profane as she lunged, shielding the impossible creature from the city’s hot breath. Read this Short Story
The Glass Nocturne
“Is this it? Are we just…stopping?” The voice, thin and reedy, sliced through the humming quiet of the train car. Read this Short Story
The Sintering Hour
In the crushing silence after a fight, two young adults start building a snow shelter, an urgent act of non-verbal communication. Read this Short Story
Young Adult Contemporary Short Stories
Static in the Grey Wood
The zipper on the tent was jammed, and the silence between them was louder than the wind coming off the frozen lake. Read this Short Story
