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"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity - Henry David Thoreau

When six likely teenagers take a camping trip just outside of their small town Northcliffe, Western Australia, in the 1960s, everything seems to be normal. That is, until they wake up the next day in a completely different timezone, 50 years in the future.

The hunt is on. Can they get back to their old life and loved ones? Or will time catch up with them?

Meanwhile, their family and friends are searching for them as well. But with the challenges the new century faces, will they ever find their way home alive?

"A story based on love, loss and finding your way in a World that changes, for one way or another, we all become lost in life."

This story is created for the Open Novella Contest 2020.

All rights reserved. 

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Snow

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