In snowfall I always saw two of you outside my window, dancing awkwardly on the icy driveway. You laughed and threw powder into the air, like confetti. New Year’s wishes of warmer mittens, better memories.

This year it was only you I saw, making angels alone as winter melted away.

Kai is an American college student currently on exchange in Chimay, a town in the French part of Belgium. He was inspired to submit a story after learning about the website in his English teacher Mr. Monin’s class.