It’s been 184 days since I first fell; I think it’s finally time to tell my story. Like I said, it’s day 184 and I’m still alive.. you’d think that would be a good thing, but it’s not! Unlike you, I’m not a person; I’m a snowflake. Do you know how long a snowflake is supposed to be alive? Ten days, twelve at the most! But here I am; I keep on living day after day. I’ve now entered a time that I believe to be called summer: it’s literally snowflake Hell! I wasn’t always like this, it used to be cold…oh how I miss the cold. When I first fell, I was with all my friends and family. We fell down from the sky and landed in a bunch, it was great! My friends and family surrounded me constantly! But as the days went on, I noticed things started to feel really.. unnatural.. All my friends and family started melting little by little and they passed on and became water droplets. As days turned into weeks I noticed I was the only snowflake left; everyone else had passed on. That was just the beginning. Then winter passed and I entered into a new season: Spring. Spring was a chaotic time for me being the only snowflake left in a warmer, greener world. Things started growing from the ground; green things I had never seen before. I was used to white covering the ground, not green! Then it got worse… I don’t know if I can talk about it… ..ok… I’ll keep going [deep breathe] I thought I had seen it all but then.. it rained.. the most horrific thing imaginable. Literally dead snowflakes falling out of the sky!!! They were dead when they hit the ground; there was nothing I could do!!! It’s such a vicious, vicious cycle! …but I made it through the Spring and I thought the worst was behind me.. it had to be right? Wrong. A new season was upon me; a season called summer.. The heat is so intense I’m in constant pain, but the worst part is that I won’t die. It’s eternal, scorching torture with no end in sight. Please for the love of all things cold and frozen! Won’t someone please put me out of my misery, won’t someone please melt me…please..
-Allen Peele, Contributor