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The Photo Jumper
My secret life revealed
I was ten years old when I first discovered my superpower. If that is what it is. I’m not quite sure. My power isn’t something people expect when they hear superpower. It’s not flying or shooting fire out of my eyes or being invisible. But I can… You know what, let’s not spoil the surprise. Here is how it happened.
It was a Saturday, and my Dad had returned from the drug store with the photos from our vacation. After everyone had their turn looking at them, my mother put them into a photo album. I asked her if I could look at the album, and she said, “Sure, Sweetie.”
I took the photo album to my bedroom and started looking at the pictures. There was one picture of the beach I thought was cool. It was a view down the beach with lots of people. As I was staring at it, I started to think about that day.
Suddenly I was there at the beach. It wasn’t a daydream, I was physically there. So was everyone else. My entire family and all the people in the photograph.
I ran over to my mother and said, “Mom, how did we get here?”
“You know how. We walked from the hotel room. Are you feeling alright?”
“But I was just in my room looking at a photo of the beach, and suddenly I was here.”
