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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
2022-02-08 14:31:52
- Without saying a word, he handed me the photos.My heart sank as I flipped through them. Peter had done a good job. The beams and timbers of the attic showed up perfectly. The focus and exposure were fine. But the force field with Ms. Schwartz in it had come out as nothing but a blue streak that was all, just a blue streak down the middle of each picture. It looked like a flaw in the film, or maybe some trick of the light. You couldn't see Ms. Schwartz at all.
Caswin
Since: Jan, 2001

The protagonist's teacher gets abducted by aliens. And midway through, he finds his teacher being held in suspended animation somewhere else in the neighborhood, and manages to take pictures, but when the pictures are developed, they come out as "room with glowing light in the middle."