Nothing dear to the heart is ever truly lost. *First Place in the A Very Shiny Holiday Awards**First Place Winner Short Story genre The Golden Awards 2020**First Runner-up in the Ace Awards**Short story award winner in The Aesthete Awards**Third Place Winner in Short Stories In the Tower Contest**Third Place Winner in Short Stories in the Gothica Awards 2020#perdurableawards…
ONC III prompt #30. You make your living copying others' memories and selling them to people who want to remember things they've never done.Synopsis: Dr. Alex has created REMEMBER? a process that enables him to implant others' memories into those who would like to experience something they might never have otherwise. He is proud of how his creation serves to both entertain his clients as well as help them in more important ways. His existence is idyllic if somewhat lonely. So when Annie, the bartender at the Gray Lady Pub, responds to his advances he takes it to mean a relationship is in the offing. What the lovestruck Alex doesn't know is that there is something more to Annie's interest than romance, something that makes Alex wish he had never set foot inside the Gray Lady Pub.…
After eleven years living an idyllic life, Ike's world has become a rollercoaster ride of deceit, failure, and wasted time. Now he has the chance to make things right for himself and a select chosen few. Will he be able to see his well thought out plans through?Written for the prompt, "Write about someone who purposefully causes a power outage," on Reedsy. https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/…