Cold

It was as cold as cold horror. The snow had crusted on top of the powdery surface on the ground and the children tried to walk on it without breaking through. They pretended to blow smoke rings with their frozen breath and they taunted one another that they might be late for school if they kept playing, they might miss the first bell which rang at 8:30. They picked up their books from the cold white snow that covered the school yard and they went inside the building. Their ears and noses were all red with near frostbite.