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HTML

<div id="story-container">
    <div class="story">
        <img src="http://www.westernjournalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Barack-Obama-There-Might-Be-Chances-of-Further-Offshore-Drilling-Campaigns.jpg" />
        <div class="story-text">
            <h4>Obama is pointing at you!</h4>
            <p>It is this very gaze, and this very pointed finger, that actually killed Osama bin Laden.</p>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="story">
        <img src="http://reason.com/assets/mc/jtaylor/rahm.jpg" />
    </div>
</div>

CSS

#story-container {
/*     margin-top: 2em; */
    width: 300px;
    height: 200px;
    border: 1px solid #999;
    position: relative;
}

.story {
    position: absolute;
}

.story img {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
}

.story-text {
    background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7);
    color: #fff;
    position: absolute;
    /*top: 130px;*/
    bottom: 0;
    height: 45px;
    /* width: 100%; */
    padding: 10px;
}

.story p {
    font-size: 0.7em;
}

JavaScript

/* Clone & shrink test */

var $carousel = $('#story-container');
$('.story:first', $carousel).css('z-index', 1);