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|name = Every Picture Tells a Story
|series         = ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' short stories
|series= [[Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series]]
|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield]]
|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield]]
|featuring =  
|featuring     = [[Vosta Dankasta|Vosta]]
|writer = [[Jim Sangster]]
|writer         = Jim Sangster
|publication = ''[[Life During Wartime]]''
|anthology      = Life During Wartime (anthology)
|prev = Paths Not Taken (short story)
|release date  = 13 October 2003
|next = Fluid Prejudice (short story)
|prev           = Paths Not Taken (short story)
}}'''''Every Picture Tells a Story''''' was the fourteenth story in the [[Bernice Summerfield]] anthology ''[[Life During Wartime]]''. It was written by [[Jim Sangster]].
|next           = Fluid Prejudice (short story)
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'''''Every Picture Tells a Story''''' was a [[2003 (releases)|2003]] short story written by [[Jim Sangster]] and released in the ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' anthology ''[[Life During Wartime (anthology)|Life During Wartime]]''.
 
== Summary ==
== Summary ==
[[Vosta Dankasta]] has been hacking into the [[Fifth Axis]]' surveillance loop. He gathers together a group of academics, including Benny, to tell them of his progress.  
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== Plot ==
[[Vosta Dankasta]] has been hacking into the [[Fifth Axis]]' surveillance loop. He gathers together a group of academics, including Benny, to tell them of his progress.


Axis guards arrive and remove Vosta, holding the rest at gunpoint. They are eventually set free, but they don't see Vosta until three days later. He has been tortured, but he didn't tell them anything and he has a cheerful attitude.  
Axis guards arrive and remove Vosta, holding the rest at gunpoint. They are eventually set free, but they don't see Vosta until three days later. He has been tortured, but he didn't tell them anything and he has a cheerful attitude.


He tells Benny that he convinced the Axis to burn a valuable, "lost" painting from [[19th century]] Earth by telling them it was a fake. He gloats that he is safe from anything the Axis could do to him.
He tells Benny that he convinced the Axis to burn a valuable, "lost" painting from [[19th century]] Earth by telling them it was a fake. He gloats that he is safe from anything the Axis could do to him.


Vosta dies of a rare disease that he had before the Axis arrived. They couldn't defeat him because he knew the Axis couldn't take away his death.  
Vosta dies of a rare disease that he had before the Axis arrived. They couldn't defeat him because he knew the Axis couldn't take away his death.


Benny realises she will soon have to take a stand against the Axis.
Benny realises she will soon have to take a stand against the Axis.
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* [[Vosta Dankasta]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* The painting burned by the Axis is [[Yeames]]' ''[[And When Did You Last See Your Father?]]''
* The painting burned by the Axis is [[Yeames]]' ''[[And When Did You Last See Your Father?]]''


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Every Picture Tells a Story was a 2003 short story written by Jim Sangster and released in the Bernice Summerfield anthology Life During Wartime.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Vosta Dankasta has been hacking into the Fifth Axis' surveillance loop. He gathers together a group of academics, including Benny, to tell them of his progress.

Axis guards arrive and remove Vosta, holding the rest at gunpoint. They are eventually set free, but they don't see Vosta until three days later. He has been tortured, but he didn't tell them anything and he has a cheerful attitude.

He tells Benny that he convinced the Axis to burn a valuable, "lost" painting from 19th century Earth by telling them it was a fake. He gloats that he is safe from anything the Axis could do to him.

Vosta dies of a rare disease that he had before the Axis arrived. They couldn't defeat him because he knew the Axis couldn't take away his death.

Benny realises she will soon have to take a stand against the Axis.

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