Dad fumbled in his pouch and pulled out a flat photo.

It looked like ancient flat photos of Vermont or Normandy.

Flat photos of the armada glowed in full color.

The flat photo showed intensely red hair around a pale, heavily freckled face, very plump, with high cheekbones under the padding.

(Still, flat photos of buildings toppling, streets being uprooted, with colorful whirlpools in the sky.)

The wall decorations were decidedly feminine, some being flat photos of various holovid stars while others were of a more scientific nature.

In films, such a desk is usually covered with items: a primitive telephone, a keypad and monitor, family flat photos, styli, and so on.

Everything else was there; his letter of credit; his identification card, the messages from his parents, a flat photo of Lazy, his birth certificate, odds and ends-but no claim check.

I could choose cards as simple as the classic flat photo card (58 cents apiece at photoworks.com) or as elaborate as one by Royal Imprints from finestationery.com ($8.40 a card, described as a pearlized fold-over card mounted atop a flat silver card with a silver sheer ribbon).

For prices that range from 39 cents a card for a minimum order of 180 photo cards from Snapfish.com to $256 for 50 foldover cards with a red bow on the cover at ChelseaPaper.com, you can choose from flat photo cards or traditional greeting cards or even cards with inserted photos.