Mom insisted that Shelly witness her run throughs because video never gave a good sense of a skater’s sense of speed or ice coverage and because Shelly never remembered what she’d actually done on the ice. In a practice session, much longer than four minutes and the start of her practice skate would be too far in the past to jump back to watch. In a competition, much longer than four minutes and she’d be assessed a time penalty.
Her music ended and the announcer called out the program length.
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She set her mind back onto mustering as much technical excellence and expression into her free skate as possible. No one wanted that, least of all her mom. If she didn’t wrestle her attention back onto the ice, she’d miss the combination again. The Shelly who had just finished this practice skate stood by the boards with Mr. Apparently, something would happen in the next few minutes they wanted to jump back in time to see again. Flashes of gold shimmered into fans sitting near to their slightly younger selves. Her mom sat near the boards and waved her US flag as though if only it had shook more fiercely last night, Shelly would have landed her triple Lutz-triple toe jump combination in the short program. Even to a practice session, some had brought their flags. A scattering of figure skating fans sat in the rink’s hard, blue, plastic seats. Her music was playing over the PA system. Skaters in black practice outfits swerved around Shelly. Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.
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