Never Forget What They Took From Us Novels & Stories

“They know they’ve lost someone, but they can’t remember who. Their children, their loved ones—gone from their memories as if they never existed. This town... it’ll never be the same.” I felt my heart shatter for the people of the town. These were my neighbors, my friends, and families who had unknowingly been caught in the crossfire of our battle. Used. Manipulated. We had thought we were protecting them, but in the process, we had taken something far more precious from them—their memories, their very connection to the ones they loved. And all because of our own desperate need to keep them from harming us.

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

Memory made them who they were. And they swore never to let anyone steal it again.

He looked at me “I need fresh air.” I tried to laugh but the tears are really on my eyes “I excuse myself first... Auntie.” She looked at me crying. “Came back okay” I nodded and I decided to leave. When I came out of the door, I immediately sat down and cried. He doesn't remember me anymore. but all our memories came back to me, how we met, and how we became in a relationship. I will make you remember anything, my love. Your mind may forget me but I know your heart won't.

While me, I'm here waiting for him to remember me and him don't care about me like I've never existed. I feel my tears running down again, I thought I could ignored this but I really can't. Why did this thing happened? Did I do something Terrible that I was punished by this? Tears flows to my cheeks and I sobbed. I get up and get the blue box and put my ring and bracelet there. He gave me that ring when he proposed to me years ago and he gave me that bracelet when we went to his favorite place the day before the accident happened. I put all of our memories together in this box, our pictures together and etc. I also place in this box all of the stuff the gave to me. It's time to give it back

After taking photos of both documents, I carefully put the box back. … Quinton was gone for half a month. During that time, I tried every possible way to recover my memories.

"Take everything out of your bag!" "I didn't steal anything." "We saw it on the security footage! And you still deny it? Don't force us to call the police!" … The shouting yanked me out of my sleep. I forced my head up, and the scene in front of me froze me solid. This was my family's supermarket—more than ten years ago. Back then, just so I could marry Samantha, my family sold this place. They sold every memory I had in these aisles just to buy me an apartment downtown.

We grew. And we never gave up. Not now. Not ever.

LIVIA (CHIARA) I don’t remember the first day. That’s the lie they built into me—so clean it feels like truth. They didn’t take my memories the way people imagine theft. They didn’t rip them out like teeth. They sanded them down. Smoothed the edges until the beginning blurred into nothing. You can’t mourn what you can’t locate.

Every member of the organ trafficking network was brought to justice. At long last, the victims' families received the justice they were waiting for. One year later. Against all odds, I woke from my vegetative state. But the torture I endured, combined with the damage caused by the Memory Extraction System, left me permanently disabled. I would never walk again. My parents aged considerably. They held me and cried like children. "Faith, we knew you were innocent. We always knew." "Mom... Dad... I'm sorry for putting you through all of this."