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Write a story about a character who risks their life to take a photo.

Posted in Adventure on Mar 29, 2024

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More to Me

Submitted to Contest #244

“GET INSIDE!” Jack could hear Ben, the chopper pilot, yelling over the incessant whuppa whuppa whuppa of the blades as he leaned out of the opening of the medevac so far he was more out than in, but he had to get the shot. It was his job. As they approached the ground and the dust flew everywhere, a bullet went right through Jack’s hat. The force of the bullet ripped it right off his head. Even so, it didn’t alter his approach to his work. When he was working, he used the camera lens as his eyes and today what he saw through that lens was ab...

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The Sigmund-Thun-Gorge

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He tilts his head slightly to the side and places his hand against the shell of his ear, but the thundering water drowns out the voice of the man standing opposite him. He gives a hand gesture, indicating a different direction. The other man nods and follows him over the crudely constructed wooden bridge, trembling and shivering as he holds on to the ropes that act as rails. The dampness that soaked the bridge's wooden slats rendered them soggy and each step felt like a passageway on a ship.Upon reaching the opposite bank, the man grasped th...

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Let Meat Take a Selfie

Submitted to Contest #244

The house slept whilst the other abodes awoke for the day.Stuart Weste squinted at the home, one hand resting on the rusty iron gate. He tried and failed to shake the feeling that the house was watching him with half-lidded eyes. ‘All right,’ he said to himself. His voice shook more than he’d ever admit. ‘Let’s do this.’The closed curtain of one of the upstairs windows flickered only for the briefest of moments.His breath caught in his throat. There was somebody home. Well, of course, there was. Otherwise, this would have been a pointless en...

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Roll Tide

Submitted to Contest #244

Sometimes I wonder if people get as lost as I do in the moment while they are working. Like, when the dentist has his hands on your gums, shining his headlamp into your face, is he thinking about the sheer beauty of the roof of your mouth? Is he in awe of the opportunity to stand there looking at the popcorn between your teeth while wondering if you’ve flossed today? Does he wish in this moment, with this mouth, that this day would never end?The waves today are big. Huge, actually. At four hours before high tide, I should be about fifty feet...

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Storm Chaser

Submitted to Contest #244

It was forecasted to be a simple thunderstorm. And even a simple thunderstorm would do after the uneventful season we’ve had. As a meteorology student in Indiana, it has been perfectly - boring. We get the regular blizzard left over from Chicago and standard rain showers, but it’s not like we get slammed with a nasty Nor’easter or live right in the smack dab middle of Tornado Alley. That’s not to say that there’s no severe weather, no tornado or flash flood that occasionally rips through here, because of course there is. But in the three yea...

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The Forest for the Bears

Submitted to Contest #244

Mrs Bear arrived in my office on an ordinary Tuesday afternoon, unannounced. She wasn't your standard Grizzly, a snappy dresser in a long scarlet number that had to have been tailored to fit; Ursus Arctos Fashionista.  "Ms Lox, I hear you have a knack for infidelity," she growled, low and thunderous. "Finding it, not participating in it," I replied dryly, "what's it to you?" She dropped a roll of bills on my desk and said, "you're the investigator, you tell me." I looked her up and down. She wasn't the typical jilted wife or sobbing sta...

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Alien Pictures

Submitted to Contest #244

Captain Finnian looked at the photo he took and smiled. Another great shot of a colorful nebula, or as Quixly liked to call them, ‘baby stars.’ There weren’t many photographers that had the privilege of traveling the universe for their art, and Captain Finnian felt very lucky every time he got to capture a new scene from space or on far off planets. “Did you get a good shot of ‘im, sir?” asked Quixly, his trusty alien assistant. Quixly had four arms, three eyes, and two antennae that could both hear and smell. His green skin pulled all the f...

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Across the Karman Line

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Aiysha could feel her heart rate quickening as she climbed higher into the atmosphere, her pulse echoing in her ears like a distant drumbeat. The sensation of weightlessness began to envelop her as the altitude increased, a subtle but undeniable reminder of the immense power of the world around her. She momentarily shut her eyes, instinctively seeking solace in the darkness behind her eyelids, a momentary respite from the overwhelming rush of adrenaline coursing through her veins. Inhaling deeply through her facemask, she tasted the stale ai...

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Wandering Hearts

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Finn's journey unfolded in the heart of forgotten landscapes, where the sun-kissed fields whispered their secrets to the few who knew how to listen.Finn was greeted by a sea of red lights as he drove over the hill. Unlike Manhattan, this was supposed to be a peaceful countryside. The journey began with a detour on an isolated road through wheat fields.He believed he'd sidestepped the broken-down traveling circus blocking the road ahead. Yet, destiny's hand guided him straight into a creek due to a washed-out bridge.The screeching sounds...

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A Pic to Die For

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Trixie carefully shimmied along the rickety rafters that hung over the abandoned club. She imagined there was a point in time when these rafters housed lights that flashed across the drunken dancers below. Tonight they would be holding Trixie as she accomplished a lifelong goal. It was a goal that was born at a third grade book fair. Almost by chance she had selected a photography book. Never knowing that the images inside would capture her heart. She cherished that book and the haunting photos that were plastered across its pages. Soon one ...

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STUNT DOG DEMONSTRATION

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           I was with Lewis when he gave his remarkable and unexpected demonstration. It was late summer when unrelenting desert heat was spent, giving way to more amicable conditions. That clear, sparkling California morning came with early brightness and the promise of many adventures.          Monday morning, Lewis chose to confound the evil slave system that inhibits true expression from a free-spirited artist—he called in sick. He used a ...

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The Proof is Out There

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Haru is an avid science fiction fan who has a firm belief in the existence of aliens. He fell in love with space travel and all its components when he was young a boy living in Japan. His first movie was “Prince of Space.” After that, he couldn’t get enough. When his family moved to the States, Haru hit the SyFy jackpot. Of course, there was Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica, but his all-time favorite was Space: 1999. It is a show about a colony of people living on the moon which is suddenly thrown out of it's ...

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Top of the World

Submitted to Contest #244

Note: Hundreds of people have died due to attempts to take spectacular photos and selfies. Mateo realized his mistake when his leg lodged hip deep into the old, moss-crusted roof. He had his digital camera in one hand and a bottle of Coke in the other when he’d fallen in. Glistening soda splashed the aged roofing. The surprise overrode the pain for a blink, but as he watched the bottle roll down the roof and off the ledge the stab of something in his thigh screamed for his attention. The sky was the fading blue of late midday, the air sweet...

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Saut d'Eau

Submitted to Contest #244

I left Labadie for the Turks and Caicos Islands spending a year establishing a magazine there with my lovely friend, DianaLou. Every chance I got I was back in Haiti until I finally moved to a loosely situated community called Merger, twenty kilometres south of Port au Prince. It was an ugly little box of a summer cottage I rented but sat on a rectangular acre of land bordered by coconut palms, the railroad tracks and the two lane highway beyond them, a line of thorny shrubbery with fallow farmland on its other side and the sea. I had a brea...

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A Dangerous Picture to Take

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My long-time friend James was looking very down-trodden these days. I did not feel that I could ask him about it, as he very much did not like to talk about his emotions. He had been like that since the two of us were teenagers in high school. When I came over to visit with him and his wife Ethel, I thought that I could see the cause of his unhappiness. Ethel was treating him badly, making cutting remarks about his job and the way that he dressed, among other things. This was definitely not something that he would talk to...

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