Entry for the De Retrouvailles et D'adieux Writing Competition.

Reviewed by:

exoticara9 @ Marshmallow Request Shoppe

Poster by shin-oppa at We Got Fired:

-Prologue-

The day of the first snow was always the most beautiful. Sheets of pure snow covered everything with the same blinding white; the world fell under a brief visual unity. Nothing was left uncovered. Beauty was covered by the same white that ugliness hid behind. For a single day, everything lay underneath identical blankets of white.

The first snow day of every year had always been something Minseok could look forward to. He wouldn’t build anything, or have snowball fights like a normal teen might. Instead, he found peace in simply standing in the snow, admiring the absolute perfection of the glaze-like sheets that spread upon everything around him.

This year was different, though. The snow, Minseok thought bitterly, does not leave anything uncovered. Not even these ugly, sorrowful tombstones.

It had been one year.