Free Short Story: 'The Adventure of a Skier' by Italo Calvino, translated by Ann Goldstein | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
There was a line at the ski lift. The group of boys who had come on the bus had joined it, one next to the other, skis parallel, and every time it advanced—it was long and, instead of going straight, as in fact it could have, zigzagged randomly, sometimes upward, sometimes down—they stepped up or