These Memories Don't Exist: A Short Story

By Grant M. Gerwatowski

Mr. Edmund Barrett is not well. He cannot stomach the euphoric pills that everyone else enjoys so well; he cannot explain the dreaded hallucinations that threaten to mark him as a madman; and he can no longer continue believing in the most basic truths he knows.Within a small, secluded community, there is a comfortable routine, repeated day after day for the sake of a perfectly lavish life. That routine, however, is suddenly broken when Edmund's mind begins to show him a new world of filth and decay, cruelly mirroring his own. His beloved wife, friends, neighbors, and entire town are replaced by strange sights that seem to carry some cryptic meaning.Amidst Mayor Bernard's efforts to keep Edmund and his sanity in the place he calls home, horrors from beyond the town's borders interfere, endangering everyone else in ways that should never happen. The events, coupled with Edmund's growing curiosity, force him down a dangerous path of discovery, deeper into the nightmarish world he fears, until the purpose of his visions--and the heinous role he has unknowingly played all along--is finally revealed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1070822272
• ISBN13: 9781070822273
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 103 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"