For Fandango’s Story Starter #132, where we build something around the following phrase:

Just when it looked like everything in my life was about to go downhill, it didn’t.

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Just when it looked like everything in my life was about to go downhill, it didn’t.

With a deafening crash, the sleek violet-clad figure lost all composure before veering from the course into the advertising hoardings. Lying still, he was now being carted by four hastily-summoned paramedics toward the impatient ambulance. I was to have been next, but there will be no more skiing today.