The Snow Monster

One night, Xander and I were walking down the road near our house. Or rather we were struggling down the road, shuffling our feet along through the slush and climbing over snow banks. We heard an incredible rumble ahead of us and froze in our tracks. The ground began to tremble, and we were terrified. Up ahead, something dark and enormous was approaching. We stepped off the road onto a smaller side street. A huge silhouette passed before us. We crouched in fear. When the creature had passed, we stepped back out onto the street to find that the mounds of snow and puddles of slush had disappeared. Where did it all go? It was eaten by the Snow Monster.

Since then, I have made it my mission to obtain photographic evidence of the Snow Monster. This has been difficult, because it usually arrives at night. But this last time, I was prepared. As the rumbling began and grew louder, I claimed my spot by the window and captured the monster on film. As it turns out, there are multiple snow monsters! Our neighborhood was attacked by two of them, and they sucked up all the snow on the street.

Plows herald the coming of the Snow Monster and push the snow into the street for feeding


Piles of snow up to my waist . . . and in some places my head



Another plow clears the way for the Snow Monster


The Snow Monster sucks up the snow



The second Snow Monster arrives




A clean street