Ski Shift: A Short Story

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Him and whoever- or whatever- was sitting next to him. Dylan said into his walky-talky,” HEy, Adam, there's someone or something next to me that looks like you, but I think it is asleep, so we have to be quiet. Okay?” It took a couple minutes for adam to respond, and when he finally responded he said,” Are you still on that ski lift, because it should be over by now.” Just then Dylan realized that the ski lift was stopped and he was in the middle of it. The figure was nowhere in sight. Dylan looked below and saw the figure scrambling away and because it was so dark he quickly ran out of sight. Dylan realized he was stuck and he didn’t want to stay out here all night. He checked his watch and realized it was 11:59 Pm. He realized that he had

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