Three Things: The Amnesia Edition

This week I’m thinking about memory, particularly the loss or absence of it. The bewilderment and confusion that accompanies amnesia, the nostalgia (and bewilderment) of rediscovering a lost memory: let’s write a character struggling with recall.

Phillip Toledano, from Days With My Father. Photograph. Published by PQ Blackwell, 2010. www.dayswithmyfather.com

Zhang Xiaogang, Red plum and sofa, 2013. Oil on canvas. www.zhangxiaogang.org 

Gustave Courbet, Le Désespéré (The Desperate Man), 1845. Oil on canvas. Private collection.

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It’s Baaaaack! Online Open Mic is happening this week! Submit your prose or poetry work-in-progress today and tomorrow, and get feedback from your fellow writers on Wednesday!