Short Story 24 : The Capturing Camera

The Capturing Camera

                                   - T ABRAHAM

    A year has passed and all the teddy bears have got accustomed to the shop. The positions and places where they are being placed have become their comfort. But still they are longing to be purchased by the human families. Every teddy bear wanted Liddy to leave them only after all of them have been purchased, because her tales have kept them away from their numbness and boredom.

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    Liddy started off with her tale about the camera which captured everything, ‘Photographs kindled the memories of anybody who looked at it after a few years have passed. It was the time when anyone can own a camera and can also capture anything and everything which was pleasing to their sight. The human world was filled with photographs which were maintained in both forms, namely the hardcopies and the softcopies.
    There came a time when there was a newly invented camera named ‘Captured’. People were suspicious about the name and it was known to capture even the finest of details. Many people started to buy this new camera. After a month many people were reported to be went missing all over the world and not even a trace can be found to track their path.
    Many people noticed that the newly invented camera was having some superpower. The news came and it was said that the ones using the camera to capture a person’s photograph and also the one who is posing for the photograph taken by this camera are the ones who have went missing.
    The man who invented this camera was immediately arrested by the police and was interrogated regarding his invention. The man said, ‘The camera which I have invented has a superpower to deliver the people to an unknown territory and the flash light which is attached in the camera is known for this. I have invented this to reduce the size of the fast-growing population and wanted to bring the population under control’. The inspectors knew that he is a psychopath who was misusing the domain of science to overpower the human race. He was sentenced to imprisonment at first and then after all the cameras were destroyed he was guillotined.
    The whole of the human race started to develop a hatred towards camera and photography. Finally it was decided that no new inventions are supposed to be used without scrutinizing it. Gradually the years went by and the human race was finally able to move on by forgetting this great tragedy caused by their love to create memories to cherish their past.
    Many regions have started to maintain photo studios rather than allowing its people to have their own cameras. Once again people started to cherish their memories, but have also prioritized only certain important events of their life to be maintained as a photograph’.
    Liddy noticed a camera placed in the shop. It was a toy camera and immediately after the story was told, some of the teddy bears got afraid of it. One of the customers had bought it for her son and he was focussing the camera towards Liddy. When he clicked the button every teddy bear present in the shop was panicking. But Liddy knew that it was just a toy, and nothing happened when the button was released. All the teddy bears felt relieved as they could not think about the absence of Liddy before they are being purchased by any human family.