eBook, 56 pages
English language
Published Sept. 17, 2019 by Amazon Original Stories.
What's more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award-winning author explores the answer in a chilling story about identity and human consciousness.
Haunting, bite sized story. Not too short and not too long! Just long enough to have great depth and story. This is the first I've read of the Forward series (in fact I didn't even know it WAS a series when I downloaded it). I'm excited for the rest, I love "not so distant future" novels.
When do you stop being you?
Are you your body? your memories? your spirit?
Who are you? Who am I?
This brilliant short story gives two takes on what a person is.
The story is a bit weird, it's a bit scary and it's a bit tedious, it takes you on a short journey of discovering oneself. Yourself.
Just go and read it, you are probably pondering the significance of it longer than you spend reading it.
Enjoy.
Oh, and whatever or whoever you are, don't forget: You're awesome and you are loved!
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To forget is to lose something that was once yours, that was once of yourself. But how could one lose something as expansive as an ocean in a dusty corner of one’s mind? What if, instead, to forget is to open a door to a void; the memory is not retrievable because it is not there, …
When do you stop being you?
Are you your body? your memories? your spirit?
Who are you? Who am I?
This brilliant short story gives two takes on what a person is.
The story is a bit weird, it's a bit scary and it's a bit tedious, it takes you on a short journey of discovering oneself. Yourself.
Just go and read it, you are probably pondering the significance of it longer than you spend reading it.
Enjoy.
Oh, and whatever or whoever you are, don't forget: You're awesome and you are loved!
---
To forget is to lose something that was once yours, that was once of yourself. But how could one lose something as expansive as an ocean in a dusty corner of one’s mind? What if, instead, to forget is to open a door to a void; the memory is not retrievable because it is not there, was never there.
I’ve seen a lot of rave reviews of Tremblay’s work, but this is the first of his stories that I’ve read, and although it was decent enough, it probably wasn’t the best introduction.
In it, an amnesiac wakes up in a strange facility and an unseen woman puts him through his paces. She prompts him to remember his past via mental and physical exercises. The tone is detached and a little unsettling, and I’m sure it won’t surprise you to learn that there is more going on than the main character first realizes.
This novella is part of a collection of thematically related short stories made available on Audible and Kindle for Prime and Kindle Unlimited users. It’s a fancy short story collection that you can download and read in any order. Even if this story wasn’t my bag, I plan on checking out the rest of the series.
