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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Today's #flashfiction #APhotogenicMemory

“Look before you leap.”
Geronimo* #quote


          CJ came over today. Couldn't post something yesterday because Internet was temporarily slain by a thunderstorm. Anyway onto the flash fiction!



A Photogenic Memory

         Some individuals possess a photographic memory. Walter instead had a photogenic memory. A curious neurological trait where every memory becomes much more beautiful than it was. Walter could see the worst, most boring, terrible written movie in the world and he would remember it quite fondly. And the great movies...well those experiences were just carved into his mind.
         However this only applied to the memory of the experience. Walter still experienced things as any normal person would. When he would go to a restaurant and have a horrible meal he would complain and find it just as bad as the rest of us. But later his photogenic memory would make it so that the meal could compare to professional chef.
         After his death the doctors figured out that his photogenic memory was linked to short term memory and sleep. When someone sleeps the brain turns short term memory to long term and this is when his brain would make everything photogenic.
        This was how Walter could live a life with an abusive spouse and boss and wake up merrily the next day. But a single sleepless night made him see reality instead of the false picture he'd been painting for years. Normally no matter how horrific the day before he always came into the next one smiling. However this time he remembered everything, processed it, and started to think back to all he experienced before. And on the day he without sleep when he longer lied to his own memories he committed suicide.

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