TO THE READER: this story includes several characters from the series of Jason Garrett stories; however, this story is not part of that series.
Hi there. My name is Dexter Malcolm. I take pictures for a living.
I used to ruin - or sometimes improve - people's careers for a living. I would take photographs of them in particularly compromising positions, and then, when the time was right, release them to the general public. My biggest success - or failure, depending on how you choose to look at it - came in December of 2005, when I had only been doing this for a little over a year.
That summer, I had been in Malibu. It's a great place to go during the summer when you really want to screw people over. Anyway, one night at sunset, I had been walking down a fairly deserted part of the beach, and there, lo and behold, were Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, fucking like rabbits. Ever the opportunist, I hid myself pretty well, got out my digital camera with its amazing macro zoom, and started taking pictures. I took over 200 pictures of the two of them, ending with a spectacular cumshot on Jennifer's tits.
Larry Flynt, the original Sultan of Smut, paid me $100,000 for those pictures, and although Ben and Jennifer were both mighty pissed, since it took place on public property, there was nothing that they could really do - especially since I, the photographer, remained very anonymous. Not that it was necessarily a bad thing for them. Shortly thereafter, Jennifer Garner began commanding a good five million dollars per movie she did, when her highest paying film to date before that had been
Elektra
.
And my life has continued like that for the last fifteen years. I have a real job - I'm a photographer for USA Today. But I still like to do the photographs of people. I've made just over two million dollars in the last fifteen years doing this. It has allowed me to maintain a very comfortable lifestyle. Now, I'm not ostentatious about it - I drive a 1968 Mustang Shelby GT500, which while definitely an upscale car - and at 52 years old, a definite collectors item - is also definitely not a Ferrari 575. I maintain a very nice bachelor's pad in Hollywood - although, again, nothing too unbelievable. On top of that, I have managed to build a very sizable 401K.
It's now the year 2020, and we're embroiled in the midst of yet another presidential election. The Republican candidate is Ralph McLellan a preacher from Tennessee, and the Democratic candidate is Tara Martinson, congresswoman from California and chair of the House Oversight committee. At 35, she is the youngest member of the House to ever hold the chair of the Oversight committee, to which all the intelligence agencies report. She is also the youngest member in history of California's congressional delegation.
Tara Martinson is also a very popular politician. She had garnered endorsements from former presidents Bill Clinton and John McCain - presidents on both sides of the aisle. Rudolph Giuliani, former mayor of New York, had served as president since 2017, but health problems had brought him to the decision to not run for reelection.
Come September of 2020, I was racking my brains. Tara Martinson looked unbelievably familiar, and yet I could not place her face. Now granted, she was a congresswoman from my state, but I felt that I had seen her elsewhere, when she was much younger. Unfortunately, no matter how much I searched, I couldn't find anything about her that would make me understand that.
And then, one night, it hit me like a freight train.
I couldn't sleep late one Friday night in September, and so I pulled out my very first album of "incriminating photos". I opened it up to the first page -
And the visage of Tara Martinson stared back at me.
That's when it hit me. Tara Martinson had been the first person I had photographed, except, according to the photo, she was Tara Zelino at the time.
The pictures were labeled November 21
st
, 2004. The photographs were of a massive orgy, of which Tara Martinson, neΓ© Zelino, was the center. The other participants were listed as Kyle Czinowski, Anna Davis, Tyler Jacobsen, Jacob Martinson (of course, Tara's husband), Kevin Michaels, Faith O'Hare, Lee Troy, and Michelle Youngman.
The circumstances surrounding these photos had been phenomenal. Walking home from a nighttime class, I had walked past the apartment of an acquaintance of mine, Lee Troy, when I had heard noises that were definitely the sounds of sex coming from the apartment. The curtains to the front window were closed, but the back curtains were wide open. Vaulting the fence, I positioned myself underneath a bush behind his back door - it was the sliding glass type - that gave me and my digital camera a perfect view of what was going on inside. Unfortunately, most of my memory card was full, which left me with a limit of about fifty photos.
I used them wisely, catching the best of the action, including a double penetration, an almost bukkake-style group cumshot on Tara, and then the three females cleaning all the cum off of her with their tongues. And now, here were fifty pictures of the Democratic candidate for President of the United States in a massive orgy. Granted, she had only been nineteen at the time, but it was definitely her, and I knew that these pictures, if released to the public, would definitely turn the tide of popular opinion away from her... or, perhaps she'd be willing to have them go away forever.
Either way, I knew that I was going to get a shitload of money. There was a possibility that this would outdo the Garner-Affleck thing.
Going to congress.gov, I pulled up the "e-mail your member of Congress" form. Thinking about my options, I very carefully formulated my letter.
TO: xxx@ca.congress.gov
FROM: xxx@gmail.com
DATE: 9/27/20
SUBJECT: Important information regarding your election
BODY:
Congresswoman Martinson,
My name is Dexter Malcolm. You may recognize my name as a photographer for USA Today. What you may not know is that I was at Fresno State at the same time that you were. Bearing that in mind, I want you to think very carefully about the events of November 21
st
, 2004. I want you to consider the impact that photographs of those events might have. Please call me at (714) 555-4092.
Sincerely,