Write about someone who doesn’t remember their past — and doesn’t want to.

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“Another Page” by Nova Nite

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Two beings stood in the middle of an empty field. A man and a woman, the woman’s long brunette hair blowing behind her, the boys short black hair askew from the powerful wind. He looked down at the shorter woman and gazed into her ocean blue eyes, she gazed back into his brown ones. This was the end, the end of their story. They both knew it. She could feel the magic of the portal behind her trying to drag her in, she couldn’t hold on for much longer. This was the only way to save everything and everyone, if she went to whole other uni...

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“The Obsidian Queen” by Maya Ad Astra

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When I tell people, I don’t remember anything before 21, I get a handful of responses. “Oh, you poor thing,” an older woman would say. Her hand is on my shoulder or my arm and she’s looking at me with sorrowful eyes. In her eyes, I have become her daughter or her granddaughter and she will treat me as if I’m her own. The former frat boy laughs it off. Says he doesn’t remember anything before 21 either. He lost his memories to parties and underage drinking. Most people think it’s trauma. My brain is protecting me by making me forget whatev...

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“The Vivid Colors” by Stuti Shree

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It is almost pinching my eyes and everything feels dizzy at once. Eventually, it settles in the too-bright sunlight. The grains of sand feel cold between my fingers. Water of the ocean is touching my feet and running away like a child, trying to make me run after it. Something feels odd and wrong about this nostalgia overwhelming inside me; still I force my steps forward when suddenly it comes to my realization that I am tied with ropes tightened around my wrists and ankles. The other end of the ropes is far from my vision, as if they’re end...

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“No Other Way” by Hannah Shirts

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When I woke up, all I could hear was the blaring noise of bangs outside. I sat up on the bed I was laying on, and looked around the room. The curtain over the window was open, showing me a crowded street outside, and the source of the loud banging noise - fireworks, taking off and exploding into the sky. I moved out of bed, and made my way through the open door into what appeared to be a living room. My living room? The furniture was spotless. No dust, no other people, and a solid wall between me and the party going on outside. I ma...

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“Marked” by Inkstained Introvert

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Trigger warning: Mentions of self-harm and abuse You’ve cried a lot, I bet.You can deny it if you’d like, but I’m sure you have. You’re human, after all. From big buff men whose job, they think, is to protect everybody, to train-wrecks of little girls who wail when they don’t get what they wanted for Christmas—everyone’s cried. And I’m no exception. Although I’m not exactly human. It’s 2142, and people call our planet old-fashioned. They say we’re behind the times, looking back on us the way, a century or so ago, those on Earth loo...

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“Screams in the Light” by CM Jewell

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He awoke with a start. Cold sweat trickled down his neck and down his spine, and a chill which made his hair stand on end coursed through him. He couldn’t remember what had startled him so badly, but the image of pure white light had seared his eyes. The man pushed the sheets of his cold bed off of his stiff legs and painfully got to his feet. The clock on his nightstand read a ghastly early hour, but the man knew he would not find comfort that night. His mouth was dry and sticky. A glass of water was what he needed. ...

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“Ave Memoria” by Jacques Humanité

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When I wake from time to time in that dark room, I see the figure sitting by my bed with its head bowed, its elbows on my thighs as it holds a small, silver cross aloft in the pale light shining from somewhere above. “God bless you, God bless you…” Whispers the Thing in a faint, wavering voice. “God bless you, and God keep you.”Following the little prayer, I drift back into the realm between sleep and waking, drifting along ocean tides until at some point a faint light shines once again, but this time it drifts across my vison and then disap...

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“The Empty Space” by Patrick Druid

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Monica left the party in a hurry, her face red with the tears of shame. She looked back towards the big house where the party had been, hoping to find a a friendly face somewhere, but all she saw were the same people looked back at her. Some were the 30ish red heads holding flute glasses of champagne and various well to do husbands and boyfriends looking back through the windows and porches. It was almost as if they had formed a cordon around the house, making clear that she had been banished like Adam and Eve had been from the Garden of Ede...

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“Lost Memories ” by Brian Ebiner

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Lost Memories By: Emma Ebiner I feel damp air, and a chill goes down my back. My eyes are closed, and I can feel that I'm laying on my back. My head is aching. It feels like a hammer is pounding over and over again. I hear voices all around which does not help. My eyes twitter. I open my eyes a little to see a bright light in front of me. I wait for my eyes to get adjusted. I look around and see several people. I don't remember anything about my past or what my name is. But for some weird reason, I'm happy, like a ...

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“I don't want to remember m'y past” by وداد أكرم

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Samer felt pain in his entire organs trying to open his eyes for the first time in six months , but the feeling of helplessness accompanied him in his attempt but nevertheless opened them to feel the smell of medicines, to find around him a lot of medical devices .Try raised his voice but the doctor didn't hear him at first.He raised his voice again, speaking in Arabic, the doctor heard it but did not understand what Samer saidbut the doctor said: "What are you trying to say?" Samer realized It's in a foreign country, and he spoke ...

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“Tide” by Jane Reaper

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"You really don't remember a thing, do you?" The white wash crashed at our feet, the water speckled my trousers. It was cold. Freezing, in fact. I don't know if I've ever felt the ocean this chilled, if I did I wouldn't remember. "No," I said to her. She was toeing the sand, making little smile faces and letters for the sea to come and claim. The breeze was relentless and salt-filled, and it tossed her short brown hair around her face. It was a quite lovely face. "Not even my name?" she asked. "Not even my own." She held her hands behind her...

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“I'll Pack My Bags and I'll Never Look Back” by Kathleen M.

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She has a home somewhere, but the only time she visits it is for the library. Some say she’s an eccentric billionaire, others think she’s a danger to herself and to others. She’s been thrown in asylums by so-called friends, only to bust herself out and travel far away. They call her the Woman with the Suitcase, and when asked about who she was, she gets a distant look in her eyes and says “I don’t know”. Her suitcase is full of souvenirs from places she’s been, and she’s been everywhere. From the largest cities to the smallest villages, she ...

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“Drowning Deep” by Sivaprakash .

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“I could see nothing, nothing but water around me. I could feel my breath being taken away.Everything was blue what I could see. I struggled to find a way.”Alzheimer sighed.“When I woke up, that’s all I could remember, the sea drowning me.I didn’t have a name or number, I didn’t know what I was supposed to be.”A little girl sitting nearby clapped with her smile.“It was a great rhyme Alzheimer!” she said excited.Alzheimer smiled at the innocent little girl.“I bet you would have been a great poet before all this.” Bolster commented.“Maybe, but...

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“Goodbye, Old Elizabeth” by Sam Reeves

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Everyone tells you how important it is to remember. Everyone tells you the days or the moments that are special, and you’ll be grateful to look back on in the years to come. No one ever tells you, that sometimes, it’s ok not to remember. 22nd FebruaryOk, so my name is Elizabeth Monaghugh and I have lost my memory. I was told to keep this journal by my doctors as it may help me remember something. Right now, I know my name and where I live. That’s it. The doctors told me I was found alone on a road, near some forest. Apparently, I’v...

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“BACKWARD NEVER” by Lerato Moeketsi

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Trigger warning: abuse When Janet woke from what seemed like a dreamless deep sleep, her eyes caught the blinding light through the window. Struggling to open her eyes she pulled herself upright, clutching feebly at the blanket for support as she yawed. She had no idea where she was or how she had ended up in this unfamiliar place. A man was sitting beside her. Blinking her eyes to clear her view, she tried to search through her mind who the stranger could be but nothing came to mind. “Where am I? What’s the matter with me?” Janet was...

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Write about someone who doesn’t remember their past — and doesn’t want to.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 205 stories

“Another Page” by Nova Nite

“The Obsidian Queen” by Maya Ad Astra

“The Vivid Colors” by Stuti Shree

“No Other Way” by Hannah Shirts

“Marked” by Inkstained Introvert

“Screams in the Light” by CM Jewell

“Ave Memoria” by Jacques Humanité

“The Empty Space” by Patrick Druid

“Lost Memories ” by Brian Ebiner

“I don't want to remember m'y past” by وداد أكرم

“Tide” by Jane Reaper

“I'll Pack My Bags and I'll Never Look Back” by Kathleen M.

“Drowning Deep” by Sivaprakash .

“Goodbye, Old Elizabeth” by Sam Reeves

“BACKWARD NEVER” by Lerato Moeketsi

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