Before Your Memory Fades Novels & Stories

Sa kabila ng lungkot at sakit na dumagsa sa dibdib ko, nagawa ko pa ding ngumiti at magpakawala ng buntong-hininga. "Did you know that when you're freed, not only your memories will disappears but as well as the memories of the people you've met. So, in the end. Everything will be erased." muli akong nagbuntong-hininga. "In the end, it'll be wasted. It will lost its existence. It won't have meaning at all."

**** ~ Flashback ~ Before heading to the library, Evelina and Rissa are on their way to the opposite end of the class to the library. Evelina walks and she stops from her path, she just remembers that there was something she forgot. Seeing Evelina's reaction stop, Rissa asks her. "Eve, what's wrong? Is there anything you left in the classroom?" "No, I forgot something. That actually, I wanted to return the book in the library," she replied.

Summer's face had gone very still. "Gray," she said softly. "There's no fixing it," I said. "I need you to understand that. It's going to get worse. I'm going to forget things. I already do. I might forget my dad. I might forget Crew. I might forget myself eventually." I looked at her. "I don't want to forget you. I know that probably sounds strange given that you've only been in this house a short time but it's true. And I keep video clips on my phone, of conversations, of moments, so that when I lose them I can find them again."

"You know, at the beginning of my memory cycle, it starts out normally…like I’m living all over again…until it passes the 50-year mark. Then, I just started getting miserable. Each time I approach a hundred, my attempts become more frantic, so…I suffer the most pain." "How many years till you lose your memory again?" she asked, her gaze fixed on me, a flicker of something akin to concern in her eyes. "Well over 80," I shrugged, "Still a lot of time for you to try," I added with a weak, mirthless laugh.

He begins to fade. To disappear. Like he was never really there. But before he does “One more thing,” he says. I wait. “Do not underestimate them.” “You already made that mistake once.” That’s a reminder I don’t need but won’t forget. “Next time,” I say quietly, “I won’t.” Silence. He’s gone. Completely. The room feels empty without him. But not quiet. Not really. Now my mind is moving. Fast. Sharp. Focused.

The edges blurred first, the car, the road, the figures, all of it losing shape like it was being pulled away from me piece by piece. “No,” I said under my breath, but it didn’t matter. It never did. The memory slipped away, dissolving until there was nothing left but the darkness again, the water beneath my feet, and the silence pressing in from all sides. But this time, it didn’t stop there. Everything began to fade.

“I don’t… I don’t remember why. Just that name.” He inhaled sharply, staring at me as though I had just proven something to him. “You only remember the things you’re holding onto,” he said slowly. “The pieces keeping you alive in here. Everything else will continue to fade until there’s nothing left—for as long as you're here.”

Forgetting itself. Silence. Absolute silence. Understanding settling. Haven was dying. Not physically. Consciously. Her awareness was eroding. Her memory dissolving. Her self disappearing piece by piece. She was forgetting herself to death. "How long?" Haven asked. Calm voice. Accepting voice. Unsurprised voice. "How long before I forget everything? Before I'm gone?" "Maybe years," Marcus said gently. "Maybe months. Consciousness degradation is unpredictable. Could accelerate. Could plateau. Could we don't know. This has never happened before. You're first bridge to survive this long. First to reach this stage. You're pioneer. Even in dying."

The place was so silent that her footsteps could be heard. Sad memories of how she, Mama Samantha, and Gio used to go to church every Sunday flood back. The happiness, the joy of having a family, the peace of being extremely poor but happy was all she remembered. Warm tears flowed down her left eye to the corner of her lips. "Nothing lasts forever" She remembered Mama Samantha's last words. Truly nothing lasts forever on this earth, but even pain. Weeks ago, Alita was at the edge of breaking and begging her late parents and Mama Samantha to guard her soul to an eternal end. The kind of end where she would feel no more pains, the kind of end she would 'Remember to forget' what pain feels like

she said slowly, trying to gauge his reaction. Blaze nodded his head slowly. There is nothing for him to doubt here. Things like this usually happen. You will never actually forget anything permanently. Memories just fade away a little, until someone or something reminds us of what we forgot. So he nodded his head thinking that her dream might have reminded her of everything that was faded because of the fairy haze.