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Jump, Maggie! Jump!

August 19, 2005 on 4:18 am | In General Nonsense |

A single engine plane crash-lands onto an iceberg in the north Atlantic. All but the pilot escape serious injury.

Robert, Linda and their young daughter Maggie are hurrying away from the crash site as thick, black smoke rises from the wreckage. Just then, there is a loud snap and a jagged line forms in the sheet of ice.

Maggie is frozen in terror as she is steadily separated from her parents.

"Jump, Maggie!" Robert screams and reaches for her across the crevasse.

"Jump, Maggie! Jump!"

Water rushes in to fill the divide and Maggie looks down to see that the ice is at least twenty feet thick above the watery depths. There’s another loud crack as boulder-sized chunks of ice fall off the face and splash below.

A frigid blast of arctic wind stings Maggie’s face and she suddenly realizes this is her last chance. She takes a few steps and leaps toward her father.

Robert slips but manages to catch Maggie by the collar of her jacket and pulls her to safety across the two-inch gap and into the Monorail just as the doors and gates are closing. The train releases a puff of air from the brakes and accelerates out of the station, headed back to the parking lot.