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How to Remember Perfectly

ShortStory 5,020 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources

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"Joy catches my eye, shuffles my direction. Her face lights the dining room. Her curly gray hair is the sun’s corona, and she seems to float above her walker, needless of her stiff little legs. In seeming slow motion she arrives at the seat across from me. Eating and conversation have stopped."

BiopunkBodily AutonomyPhilosophical

More tags 14

TenderIntrospectiveConsciousnessLyrical ProseMelancholicMemoryNear FutureLiterary SFFirst PersonLiteraryGrief And LossIdentityBittersweetScience Fiction

Content warnings 2

death-of-a-loved-onesuicide

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