Martin smiles at his son. The boy looked like he did all those years ago when he’d been first adopted from Vietnam. The playful smile. The eyes full of life. The curiosity about the world. He wanted all his children to be happy, even if there mother was gone. The camera flashed.
Martina rubbed her eye. Mommy wasnt gone. Mommy was standing right there, holding the camera. Martina was sitting on the bed with her twin brother Alex. Their mother Diana had posed them for a picture with the weird camera.
Diana looked at the two girls. She smiled. Her husband would be home soon. She should go check on her daughter Kayla before then and make sure she didn’t have that boy in the room.
Little Marina started crying. The twins were almost one and she knew she needed to ween them, but she enjoyed the closeness that came from nursing her babies. She lifted her shirt and undid her bra, letting her generous breast flop free. She held Martina up and the girl latched in and began suckling her swollen dark brown nipple. She smiled. Outside, near the front door, a PETA canvasser named bill paused as reality overwrote his identity and placed him into the roll of Diana’s husband and the children’s mother.
In the other room things shifted in Kylie’s mind again as she began thinking of herself as Kayla. She may have been locked into the form of a teenage Asian girl, but was not protected from reality changes caused by others. Each time the camera flashed her understanding of who she had been shifted.
Two days later Kiana was ready to fix things. She had researched the camera and knew she merely needed to set it to revert then tell the target who they were before triple clicking the picture button. It was time.
She started with her mother (who unbeknownst to her had been a PETA canvasser). “You are a 39 year old man who is married to Kiana and has theee children. You have an 11 inch dick” Kiana smiled at the last part. That was an addition just for her.
Next came little Marvin, a four year old boy (originally her wife). “You are a 16 year old boy who lives with his mother and father and two sisters.
Next we’re the twin 16 year old girls (originally Alex and Dylan). “You are 6 year old twin girls.”
Finally, she turned the camera on herself. “You are a beautiful 36 year old woman who is married with three children.” She would miss being young again but it was nice having everything back the way she knew it was supposed to be.
Now to get rid of the camera. She told her family she was going to Fred Meyer and instead drove towards a large condo building being built nearby. She dumped the camera in a pit next to an earthmover, hoping it would be buried forever.