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Found 7 works tagged 'memory'.
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May the Pain Guide You Home
Published Oct 24, 2020 · 2,847 words (11 minutes) · 224 views
Science Fiction military memory Grief war
A shared memory recording brings together a soldier's grieving mother and a shell-shocked war reporter.
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Iron Temple
Updated May 3, 2020 · 22,530 words (82 minutes) · 2822 views
Science Fiction Romance memory dreams AIs Coral Wars Starships
Jack Nimble tripped over the gravity well; eight centuries of flight tech failed at once; Trim’s diagnostics were a maelstrom of numbers in his mind; all the data that he left up to his ship, when it worked, had become a sort of non-Fourieral scream. Jack blamed the Glorious War Machine, of course. But here in the yawing ship, rapidly describing a rolling dropping shuddering gyre, there was nothing he could do, but fall stung by Trim’s howling data stream.
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Where Gods Dance
Published Oct 11, 2019 · 1,244 words (5 minutes) · 1 like · 705 views
Fantasy Horror tragedy memory obsession death Sorrow Monsters father and son Grief magic fatherhood Family loss parenting
Originally published in the March 2019 issue of Apex Magazine (issue 118), it's a flash piece about a father's obsessive and insatiable grief over the loss of his son, and where his grief takes him as he's unable to move beyond it.
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Litany for the Departed
Published Mar 8, 2019 · 1,572 words (6 minutes) · 545 views
Horror ghosts memory Grief Posession Devotion
In a city where the underground Metro line crosses paths with the River Styx, a mother tries to suffer for her sins, while her daughter carries the baggage. There are many intersections on this line, between madness and ghosts, memory and hallucination, love and fanatical devotion. CW: mental illness, grief, suicide
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Cerise Sky Memories
Published Feb 28, 2019 · 953 words (4 minutes) · 1 like · 717 views
Science Fiction near future memory biotech sci-fi
A genetically engineered human discovers some of her implanted memories are real and goes in search of the person who gave them to her.
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The Memory Ward
Published Sep 19, 2017 · 949 words (4 minutes) · 1052 views
Science Fiction revenge sci-fi near future memory secrets Strange friendship
In the near-future, an elderly woman with a past extracts her most precious memories so as not to lose them.
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