Short Story 25 : Under The Cupboard

Under The Cupboard

                                - T ABRAHAM

    Days were passing by and only five teddy bears including Liddy were still remaining in the shop. All five of them were eagerly waiting to be purchased by someone who would take good care of them.

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    One of the employee who cleans all the five teddy bears have gone on a vacation for a week. The teddy bears were being kept away from the window to avoid them from becoming dusty. All the five of them were kept on the counter table. While they were being dusted one among the five teddy bears fell down near a cupboard. Then Liddy also fell nearby and she was able to see shreds of papers under the cupboard. These were nothing but the bills of the shop, which were no longer needed.
    Liddy started to weave her tale, ‘Long time back many things were written down in papers using pen. But nowadays everything is being stored in computers and mobile phones for easy retrieval of information. There lived a boy with his grandparents and he is known to write everyday. But his grandparents did not want him to write anything out of his academics and will never allow him to waste the papers available in their house. The boy wanted to have a diary but they did not give him one. So, one fine day he started to practice his mathematics using pencil and erased it during the night time and penned down everything which happened everyday. This was a process continuing until his grandfather died, when he had joined the college.
    One day his grandmother noticed a few papers kept hidden under the cupboard. The place was dusty and it was the responsibility of the boy to clean his room. She took those papers and started to read them. Then suddenly the boy came home a little earlier than usual. Grandmother had taken the papers with her as she felt eager to read about the past which was recorded by the boy.
    The boy left the day’s report under the cupboard, and the next day once he had left for the college she took those papers and started to read them. It had both the good and the worst times of his life. The boy had described his urge to buy a diary, once when he starts to earn his living.
    One thing which had shocked the grandmother was some of the worst things that has happened to him recently. Even though she was feeling joyous after reading that their grandson was living happily with them. The bullying and abuse he has to endure in certain places was bringing out tears from her eyes.
    The very next day grandmother had asked the boy to discontinue from the course he was currently pursuing and made him take a break from his academics for the next two months. Afterwards she was searching for a good place to send her grandson for studying and also bought him a diary during this time.
    Grandmother realised that how important it was for him to note down all the intricacies of his life. The boy had also realised that, grandmother had read his diary entries left under the cupboard. He found this out when she had asked him to discontinue and gifted him a beautiful diary’.
    Liddy was about to fall asleep when she has completed with her tale. But suddenly one customer came into the shop and bought two teddy bears for his daughters. Now only three teddy bears were left in the shop with Liddy being one among them.

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.

Short Story 23 : The Speechless Speeches

 The Speechless Speeches

                                             - T ABRAHAM

    The days were turning into months and every teddy bear inside the shop are eagerly waiting to be taken up by a loving and caring household. There was a river near the shop and sometimes there was a gurgling sound coming from it and most of the times it flows without any noise.

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    Liddy started with her story about the river, ’The newly formed water droplets were entering the fast flowing river in which the flowing water is always unheard. No new noises and sounds are accepted by the already existing water droplets which formed the river. When these newly formed droplets were trying to enter the stream there was a gurgling sound made by them. All the existing water droplets asked, ‘Who are you? Why are you making the most irritable noise?’. The newly formed water droplets did not answer them but continued to flow. Suddenly there were a few bubbles formed when they had started to get into the river. Bubbles were forbidden by the river and it started to threaten the new water droplets, ’If you are going to form bubbles in the stream I will change my direction and would eject all of you towards the river affected by the factory effluents’. The newly formed water droplets replied, ‘We didn’t do anything, it was the rocks and sand which were clinging on us while we seeped underground’.
    The river did not accept their words and was planning to silence them forever. ‘I only want silence to be maintained in my stream. There should be no speech made and no noise as well. The communication is always speechless and such water droplets are trying to change these things. I am going to change my direction and land them straight into the factory effluents’, thought the river.
    On the very next day there was a change in the course of flow. The speed and direction of flow was suddenly changed. The new water droplets were panicking. The old water droplets thought that defiling the new ones will only harm them and not the older ones. It was in the middle of the night when the stream of water reached the river affected by the factory effluents. They reached the place with full of gurgling sounds and more bubbles were formed when the river had started to flow into the contaminated water. The newly formed water droplets were contaminated with the deadly chemicals and it did not stop with that. The older water droplets also started to fall into these chemicals and the river was unable to control its flow and the whole of the river went straight into the contaminated water body. ‘Finally we too are dead’, cried the river as all its water flowed straight into the affected stream.
    The reaction of the river towards the speeches of the new water droplets and its evil actions resulted in the fall of the whole community. Finally the river was bubbling and gurgling forever with the irreversible contamination’.
    By the time Liddy completed her story, there was a crazy kid nagging his father to buy him some toys. His father looked at the teddy bears but he knew that his son would tear them into pieces in a few days. So, he did not purchase any teddy bears and left the shop. All of them were relieved because they did not want to live and die in the hands of a monster.

Short Story 22 : The Rain And The Rainbow

The Rain And The Rainbow

                                       - T ABRAHAM

    It was the months of monsoon where the raindrops were splashing into the shop through the open window. Little Fluffy got wet and also some other teddy bears got wet because of the heavy rain. Liddy started to think about the rainbow and started to weave her story in the midst of the wetness prevailing all around them.

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    Liddy started off with her imagination, ‘There was a time when the rain and rainbow were mutually existing. But on one fine day the rains were continuously pouring out causing the earth to flood all over. The sun who was taking rest behind the moon did not show up even after a week had passed. The rainbow was waiting patiently to take its turn but the rain was dominating and disturbing the humans. ‘When will you let me come rain? I am waiting for my turn’, said the rainbow to the rain. ‘Wait for one more day and I will make way for you’, said the rain in a villainous tone. The rainbow was quite disturbed and had some thoughts of perishing away soon. It was afraid that the rain might do something against it as the tone of the rain was very clear that it did not like the rainbow asking for its turn. But the rain kept upon its word and descended away the very next day. According to the mutual understanding the rain will hide itself when the rainbow comes out and the sun will shine brightly. But this time the rain became insane and did the most dreaded and terrible thing to the rainbow. It rained when the rainbow came out.
    The rainbow came out immediately after the rains have descended and also the sun came out as well. All the beautiful colours of the rainbow was blossoming out after a long time and the sun and clouds enjoyed this sight of beauty. But suddenly the rain came out. ‘What are you doing rain?’ asked the rainbow. Without any response there was a spontaneous reaction from the rain. It immediately began to rain and the rainbow was getting drained out with all its colours getting lost into the air. There was a painful cry from the rainbow before it was lost forever.
    Witnessing this cruelty by the rain towards the humble and faithful rainbow, the sun and the clouds began to chase the rains away. The sun started to shine brightly and it had rapidly started to increase its intensity. The clouds started to crash against the rains and they started to spin round and round and the rain was caught inside a whirl. The intensity of the sun became very high and the flood waters descended into the ground and some ascended as vapours, going back into the sky. The whirl formed in the sky was received as a gentle breeze by the humans.
    The rains were diminished forever into tiny droplets which were filled with cycles of motions and emotions. The rainbow was killed by the rain and the rain received a deserving treatment from the other elements of nature which were living in a mutual understanding with one another’.
    Once the story was ended, two teddy bears were bought by a gentleman who has a small baby girl. The teddy bears wished good luck to both of them who are journeying towards this household to live in happiness and comfort.

Short Story 21 : The Candy Man

The Candy Man

                            - T ABRAHAM

    The teddy bears of the stuffed animals world were evacuated. All the teddy bears are now being kept for sale in the human world. But there lived one exception amidst the teddy bears who was none other than Liddy. When the teddy bears reach the human world it was inevitable and sadly all the teddy bears lose their ability to talk and walk voluntarily. The autonomy which they have over themselves are lost once they enter the human world and they are under the hands of the human beings.

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    Liddy was known to have entered the human world without losing her ability to talk. But she immediately turned mute whenever a human passes by her side. This quality of Liddy made her into a storyteller and this kept the other teddy bears away from boredom. Her tales are being woven from her vivid imagination, and her easy to comprehend vocabulary and language makes her into what every calls her to be, ‘The Magical Storyteller Liddy’.
    Liddy caught the sight of a candy being chewed by a little child who has come to the shop with his mother. Liddy started off with her tale, ‘So, today’s tale is about the candy which travelled in the human world and was destroying the human race. There was a candy named Gummy who was living away from the human Tummy. Gummy was the sweetest sugar candy who would crawl straight into the mouth of every human being but would never crawl into their stomach. The sweetest sugar candy always stayed inside the mouth of every individual and he was an omnipresent being. Once there was a time when the children of the human beings were struggling with toothaches. Gummy was ever present over their tooth and many children became lazy to remove the residue poured out by Gummy by his sweet existence. When the days went by, Gummy’s existence was getting affected because many of the parents have started to buy toothpaste, toothbrush and mouthwash for their children to get rid of the sweet which was causing all the pain to them. Even after that the children were getting frequent toothaches.
    Suddenly one day all the children were having terrible pain all over their oral cavity. When the parents examined them, they found out that most of their tooth have already got decayed and they immediately rushed towards the nearby dentist. This was the weirdest days ever seen. All the parents of the town were crowding in their nearby dental clinics to remove the decayed and deformed tooth of their little ones. Then, they all have realised what was the causative for all this misery. It was none other than the sweetest sugar candy. Yes, it was Gummy who does not get into the tummy and was always hated by every mummy. To end this cycle of decay and pain all the parents have decided to ban the sweetest sugar candy from their town and also to destroy all the Gummy chocolates available in the supermarket. So, here ends the tale of the sweetest sugar candy which had met with its fate. It did not go into the tummy and angered every mummy and so was Gummy destroyed forever ’.
    Once the story of the day ended one among the teddy bear was sold and they all bid goodbye to it. They all hoped that it would become a part of a loving and caring household.

Short Story 20 : Fallen Into The Clutches Of The Humans

Fallen Into The Clutches Of The Humans
                                                          - T ABRAHAM

    It was the last day of the spring and the start of autumn. Pinky was cleaning the Blossom cottage. To her surprise Pinky found a dusty door near their entrance which was locked with five chains. ‘Mama…. Where does this door lead to?’, asked Pinky to Mrs. Cephal. ‘Pinky… don’t try to enter that door’, said Mrs. Cephal to Pinky and went to sleep. It was around nine o’clock when Pinky had started to clean the cottage. But Pinky had a burning desire to open the door.

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    Pinky checked with her mother and father. ‘They are in deep sleep’, Pinky said to herself and started to search for the keys. Pinky found out three keys which were kept hidden under the potted plant near the entrance. ‘Almost opened the door. I need two more to enter into this mysterious door’, said Pinky to herself and went about searching for the remaining keys. Pinky had managed to find out one key buried near the rose plant which was there in their garden. The other key was found under the carpet which was in their living room.
    By the time Pinky had managed to unlock the door and open it, Mrs. Cephal came to the living room to have some water. ‘I have sore throat. I need some water’, said Mrs. Cephal to herself and got the water bottle kept on the table. Pinky went hiding behind the sofa and Mrs. Cephal noticed that the door which was kept unlocked. ‘Pinky…’, called Mrs. Cephal. But Pinky did not respond. ‘The portal to the human world is unlocked and it can pull in anybody who goes near it’, said Mrs. Cephal.
    Mrs. Cephal tried to close the door but unfortunately the door had suddenly opened and pulled her inside. ‘Help! Help!’, cried Mrs. Cephal and before Pinky could come for her rescue the door forcibly pulled in Pinky as well.
    Mr. Cephal was in a deep sleep and he woke up once it was morning. He was quite confused with the nightmare he got during the night when Pinky and her mother were transported into the human world. ‘Pinky and her mother were placed in a shop. No one bought them for months and suddenly I woke up‘, said Mr. Cephal to himself and went straight to the kitchen to have some water. Then while he was going to the living room he had noticed the door which was kept locked for years was now kept open. Suddenly he realised the absence of Mrs. Cephal and also his daughter.
    ‘Pinky… why did you do like this?’, sobbed Mr. Cephal. ‘If they have went to the human world. Even I would go there along with them’, said Mr. Cephal and went straight into the door and landed on the shop where his wife and daughter were kept for sale.
    One of the supervisors of the shop asked the customers, ‘Madam, would you like to purchase all these three teddy bears for your granddaughter? It is a combo pack and we are offering a fifty percentage discount if you are going to purchase in bulk. We have received these three teddy bears this morning and they have been manufactured recently. So please do consider’. ‘Okay, then I will buy all of them’, said the old lady and took all the three of them to her home.
    ‘Thank you grandma’, said Little Raphel and took all the three teddy bears to her bedroom. Every night she slept with these three teddy bears whom she cuddled and also received comfort from them.
    Even though the Cephals came into the human world by mistake they were being comforted by little Raphel and they were also received by her unconditionally, and were also being treated with utmost love and care.

Short Story 19 : The Sun Burn

The Sun Burn

                           - T ABRAHAM

    It was a busy weekend for Pinky. The day was hotter than the other days. Pinky felt that the sun is penetrating directly upon her. ‘Why is the day hotter than usual?’, Pinky questioned and went to sleep a little early than the other days. There was a power cut during the night time and Pinky was sweating profusely. Pinky had a dream which was influenced by the sun.

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    Pinky was standing on a podium and was addressing the audience who have come to participate in the storytelling contest. Pinky began her story, ‘It was the time when the sun started to play hide and seek. Some days it does not give its light upon the earth and would be in hiding during the day time. The favourite hiding spot of the sun is behind the moon. One day the moon asked the sun, ‘Why are you playing with the earth? It harbours a variety of lifeforms which requires the light and sunshine from you. If you are going to stay hiding behind me for a longer duration of time there would be many deaths in the earth. If that happens you are solely responsible for all the loss that happens’. The sun said, ‘Stop advising me moon! I know what to do and what not to do. These humans are the most insane of all beings. They can even produce the light of their own. Nothing productive is going on but all sorts of non-sense is progressing on earth. The earth is only seen to be going towards its regression and no improvements have been witnessed till this day’. ‘But think about the plants and animals who doesn’t have anything to do with what you are telling me. Don’t take the blame of killing the poor animals’, said the moon. The sun did not reply back but thought about this for some days.
    After this conversation the sun has decided to remain in its place. One day it was caught by insanity and decided to burn down the planet earth. Then the sun slowly started its journey towards the earth. When the moon had noticed this, it was trying to intervene and intercede and stop the destruction. But as a result the moon was burned down by the sun. ‘You cannot stop me moon. I am going to burn down the earth’, the sun screamed and landed over the earth. The earth was burning down to ashes and everything and everyone were panicking. Many voices amidst the crowd were heard telling each other, ‘It is because of the global warming! The hole in the ozone layer! Ozone has been completely depleted’. The sun was joyously seated over the planet earth and when half of the planet was destroyed suddenly the stars have started to shoot the sun. Suddenly there was a black hole approaching the sun and it tried to engulf the sun. ‘The devil is trying to engulf me’, cried the sun. Suddenly the stars shouted, ‘Stop your insane actions and return back to your position. The black hole will burst into pieces if you return to your position’. The sun moved away from the earth and went straight towards its dwelling place. As the stars have told, the black hole was burning down. But before the sun realised its mistake and had returned to its initial position, almost half of the earth was damaged. These places became the deserts and there was some water remaining on the earth. Majority of the places remained unaffected as the waters protected the earth’.
    Suddenly Pinky woke up from her dream. Then the power came amidst the darkness and Pinky got terrified and started to cry out ‘The sun has come to burn me down’, and realised after a moment that it was the light bulb which she had left switched on to know whether the power has come or not. Then she calmed down and turned off all the lights and went back to sleep.