“I've got a
rumbly in my tumbly.”
Hannibal Lecter* #quote
Today I'm going to a writer's thing, but not for my own club
doohicky, but for the organization Mom's in. I'm betting it's going to be
lots of fun. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The Memories To Be Altered
In the distant future anyone could alter their memories with the
right tech and reexperience that portion of their lives. Ordinary
weekends turned into fabulous vacations across the world. An old man
named Charles saved up for this very procedure. He saved up a great
deal of money as he wanted to pay for an expensive alteration that
would alter the memories of most of his life. He wanted to relive so
much of it. At eighty and asking for forty years of alteration he
would be the longest ever memory alteration.
People speculated as to what he would want to relive his life as. He
wouldn't talk to anybody about it so no one would ever change his
mind or discourage the alteration, as many people protested the
process. He stowed himself away in his house as soon as he registered
for the procedure and waited for every single bit of medical
paperwork and bit of bureaucracy to be processed only coming out when
necessary.
Some guessed he wanted to become something shameful, like a power
fantasy of being a serial killer or crime boss. Or maybe he wanted to
live the life of a rich actor? They guessed and guessed and guessed.
Eventually it did come out, as the people who do the procedure must
reveal so that those in reality may react properly to the person with
the new memories and know what kind of person they've become.
The new life Charles implanted in his memories and experienced within the memory machines did not vary drastically as a new role
like an actor, or crime boss or seat of power, or magician, or
something extravagant. He simply rewrote his life so that his wife
that passed away forty years ago didn't. He lived a full marriage
with her in the procedure and the last implanted memories and
experience he relieved was her having a peaceful passing and not
dying in a horrible accident and now he lived in a world as it was
before but having lived destined bond with true love till her old
age.
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