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Carlos Dominguez
Surrealist Narrative


She knew tomorrow would come and she would forget the past day’s events as if the hemorrhaging she experienced was actually a swollen blood vessel in the temporal lobe. The disease thought to be only a natural cycle of life was indeed the result of a terrible and tragic car accident that left the girl with permanent damage to her short-term memory. Everyday after the life-changing event she would have to be reminded of her life and the people most loved by her. After this tragic event a man would be brought into her life to attempt to manipulate her memory. Henry would show the girl a video of the accident and reintroduce her to the people that have been taking care of her for the past year. The overwhelming amount of love she is able to experience daily is a feeling so fresh it is like having a first kiss 365 days of the year. And upon each first kiss the sun set only to give light to a new day, birthing a clean slate for the two to spend a lifetime falling in love.

Suddenly, the girl began to question the sincerity of the love she felt from Henry after what felt like a lifetime of first kisses. She began to realize changes in her relations with this man. The girl felt a fear come over her that her beloved had created the damage to her brain as if he had a way into her mind like a secret window. It was an experience one could only have if schizophrenic. She began to take notice of his violent nature and the references he made to her about his alternate personality, which he called Shooter. Here memories that had suffered such loss came back to her as she realized he was the assailant. Shooter was a hybrid unconsciousness with mastery of manipulation and deception. She came to visit him up at the summer cottage deep in the woods off a peaceful flowing river one mid-summer day only to fine a homicidal plot formed against her. As the world around her went silent and all visual awareness blackened, the girl re-entered a repressed place in her mind for the next few days….



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