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Dust on the Horizon
≡ Image prompt:

Do not depict: Child Abuse, Suicide, Explicit sexual content or nudity, Extreme graphic violence or gore, Drug/alcohol use. Generate an illustration for a choose-your-own-adventure story. Style: Digital illustration, vivid colours, suitable for a web story. Do not include any text or lettering in the image. A lone horsewoman on a sun-bleached desert wagon road, looking back at a distant plume of dust raised by four pursuing riders, harsh noon light, sweeping arid landscape. in Children's book illustration style

Dust on the Horizon


The wagon road unrolls flat and pitiless under the noon sun. You glance back and see them: four riders, a smear of ochre dust rising behind. They've been gaining for an hour now.

Your mare is lathered. The serum bag thumps against your hip — every jolt a life weighed in glass.


Cut into the dry arroyo and try to lose them in the gullies
Stop, turn your horse, and ride straight at them with a white kerchief raised
Go Back

? Sometimes the boldest move is the one your pursuers least expect.

Start Over

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