Lights, Camera, Action by Kris P. Kreme
When Blake had the idea of looking at a massive antique store for a gift for Kendra’s mother, he never imagined finding something that would change their lives forever.
Although the pair have known each other for years in school, it wasn’t like they spent time in the same crowd. But now that their parents are married, they spend plenty of time together, and it’s together that they find… the camera.
It’s an old movie camera with a hand crank on the side, but when looking through and turning that crank, somehow the camera shows things that aren’t real… or not in this universe. Is it showing another world, a perverse version of this reality… or is it something else entirely?
Blake is already regretting his suggestion of a place Kendra could look for a quirky unique gift for her mother this Christmas. They’ve barely gone past the unusually crowded front of the massive antique store before Blake regrets it, the entire place filled with creepy, dusty, remnants from a pre-internet society he feels less than comfortable around.
But one of these antiques may just show the pair a glimpse into a world one of them never imagined, and the other thought would be forever trapped within the world of fantasy.
Kendra is all for the prospect of finding her mother something perfect this Christmas, her slender figure swallowed up in bundled warm winter clothing, the snow and ice outside about the only thing keeping Blake from abandoning their search. As she points out, her mother always loved and collects old cameras… so naturally the pair of once friends and recently step-siblings are looking for just that.
As they look, Blake admits he is creeped out by all the things they see, his love of horror giving him the fear of being possessed by one of the freaky old dolls or something. And in their discussion, Kendra admits her own fears, something he is surprised by since Kendra is generally the perfect everything, nothing to worry or fear in her life.
Having a pretty mom, being pretty herself, Kendra has had nightmares of becoming just a pretty face, a vapid brainless busty bimbo, as though anything like that could happen. It’s as irrational a fear as Blake’s about the antiques, but when they finally find what seems like the perfect gift… a little antique movie camera with a crank on one side, both of them will get a glimpse into a perverse reality which pushes all fears aside, and may just bring some to life.
Heading back past other shoppers in the antique store pre-Christmas sale, Blake happens to hold the camera up, turning the crank, and what he sees stops him in his tracks. When he lets Kendra look through it, she sees the same impossible thing. Outside the camera, a normal family browses not too far away… but through the lens of that camera, they both see perverse public acts like they never saw before.
It’s as though the camera is showing alternate versions of whoever it is aimed at… and that is enough to have Kendra ready to put the camera back where they found it, never to touch it’s obviously twisted little handle again.
When Blake, carrying the camera on their walk back to the more desolate warehouse back of the antique store, aims it at some crumpled old magazines… it all becomes clear. He looks at the pristine antique comic books, worth thousands at least… and he knows just how the camera actually works.
Will Blake and Kendra face their fears in ways that bring those fears to life? Will Kendra be the very cause of her own nightmare self becoming who she really is? Find out as the 12 Days of Krismas gets Krismas Kreepy in a mysterious gift hunt that finds a camera with a focus on how freaky the world around us could really be.
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