Forget What You Can’t Remember, chapter 22: In which Fantastician encounters a battlefield whose complexities and ethical uncertainty serve mainly to unhinge him from any sense of direction or purpose, even after he takes dramatic action to bring the conflict to a rapid conclusion.
You can order More Lost Memories, and read the companion stories to the events in chapters 20, 21, and 22, in paperback, for your kindle, or as an eBook in nearly a dozen formats from Smashwords.
Forget What You Can’t Remember, chapter 21: In which Fantastician interrupts a group of murderous thieves as they storm a Kwytzwik Temple, and finds himself thrust further along his path of realizing the oblivion he hadn’t noticed in himself.
Forget What You Can’t Remember, chapter 20: In which the deep personal and ethical quest of Fantastician (also known as Job) begins with a chance encounter in a deep, dark forest that climaxes in a nearly failed rescue.
For those of you who read and/or listened to Lost and Not Found, yes, this is the same character that you know from that book. What is he doing here? Stay tuned to find out! (Or buy the paperback, and find out now!)
Forget What You Can’t Remember, chapter 19: In which the Sergeant discusses the subtle and complicated smellscape his dangerous animals habitat will be employing with the scent expert installing the system that will create it, and then discusses the competitive mixed martial arts group that he’s found himself having to create.
Forget What You Can’t Remember, chapter 18: In which Paul and Mary discuss his ideas about trying to build a machine capable of restoring memories -and perhaps also people, places, and things- from before Doomsday removed them from the world.
You can find more information about Art Detour, coming up March 6-8th, by doing a google search for “art detour Phoenix“, as the official site, artlinkphoenix.com is pretty much useless. I’ll be showing among the vendor booths that run along Garfield between 4th & 6th and down both 5th & 6th Streets between Garfield and McKinley (Roosevelt Row) on Friday night between 6PM & 11PM, and then I’ll be in the parking lot between the Eye Lounge and Modified Arts (on Roosevelt between 4th & 5th) on Saturday from 10AM to 6PM and on Sunday from Noon to 6PM. I’ll have my art on display, and I’ll also have my books available for sale (and signing) if you’re interested. I hope to see you there!
UPDATE: I accidentally attached the wrong file to the podcast – please re-download this episode to listen to chapter 17!
Forget What You Can’t Remember, chapter 17: In which Paul and Brady get into further detail about Brady’s dissociative disorder, consider the fine line between perception and awareness, and Brady reveals his idea of something worth living for.
Also: The image on the book’s cover was partially inspired by a scene in this chapter, and partially by how the concept explored in that scene applies to the entire experience of reading this book.
Forget What You Can’t Remember, chapter 16: In which Mary discovers the disreputable background of Paul’s psychiatrist, she and Paul discuss the actual cause of his mental unbalance, and they read his mysteriously surviving novel about the Doomsday come and gone.
The social media site for book readers I mentioned in my intro today is Goodreads, and I encourage anyone who enjoys books (paper books, eBooks, audio books, whatever) to take a look.