If
there’s any short story anyone should read then make it Inside the Volcano by Donovan Webster. Webster is a great writer and
has written for publications such as National Geographic, The New Yorker, and
Times Magazine. This story is very use strong descriptive language and is about
a photographer leading a team of adventurers into an active volcano in the
South Pacific.
My
favorite excerpt for the story is: A sinewy and friendly German engineer,
Heinlein hands me the expedition’s climbing rope, which leads down, inside the
volcano. Clipping the rope into a
rappelling device on my belt—which helps control my descent—I step into the air
above the pit.
I
really enjoy how he uses that kind of language to describe the engineer because
he could’ve easily said, “A skinny engineer.” Since he used the sinewy, it
helps the reader to get a visual on what he looks like. Also, describing the
rope was pretty neat too.
This
story has a ton of great dialogue that helps advance the story and I believe
that this is one story that everyone should at least read once.
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