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trees to whatever terrors lay below. “I’m scared,” Eno said. She sounded farther and farther away. At last, Lyth- cott came to r ...

American SIM card that allowed him to contact the United States. He felt around in his jacket pocket, and there it was! Carefull ...

ARE YOU OKAY???” “Mikey, what police do we call???” “Do you know what to do here?” “?????” Ricardo Mendes, wanting Lythcott to a ...

She dug her fingernails into the soil and waited for the help that Lythcott hoped was on the way. Only days earlier she had been ...

so it went for the next two hours. Getzler-Vaughan frantically multi- tasked, working by phone, text, and e-mail, receiving and ...

trouble and needs help. I will yell my face off if that helps to get a point across!” Meanwhile, half a world away, Eno and Lyth ...

L ythcott was drifting in and out of consciousness when he heard the sound of brush rus- tling. He tensed up. Bali has snakes— c ...

it was approached. Soon the sound turned into a murmur, then into voices. A search party! Speaking little English, four rescu- e ...

If anyone is interested, I’ll be signing —@joefrog1 People who read books are so dumb. Like, the pages are literally numbered a ...

ROAD TRIP TREASURES For our annual photo contest, we asked readers to share their best snapshots from roadside America. Sit back ...

TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA grand prize We had just left Clearwater Beach, and I was sad we couldn’t stay to watch the sunset—until I rea ...

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CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, OHIO runner-up I took this as the historic Nickel Plate Road steam locomotive no. 765 passed thro ...

SAUSALITO, CALIFORNIA runner-up On our way to Bodega Bay, my husband and I stopped at a lookout by the Golden Gate Bridge to tak ...

DULUTH HARBOR, MINNESOTA honorable mention My wife and I used to live in Duluth, so we returned for a vacation last winter. We s ...

ORO GRANDE, CALIFORNIA honorable mention They call the metal pipes decorated with colorful bottles at this Route 66 roadside att ...

Photo Contest Reader’s Digest CAPE COD, MASSACHUSETTS runner-up This was our family’s first time visiting the East Coast. I love ...

NATIONAL INTEREST Mount Vernon, Texas, could have become just another fading outpost. Folks in town weren’t about to let that ha ...

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T hey say everything is bigger in Texas. While that may be true, some of the best things in Texas are quite small. Case in point ...