THE DISTORTIONIST

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Summary

What would you say if someone could change your bad memories? It would be delightful, don’t you think? If so, the distortionist is waiting for you... 1930, Manchester, Great Britain. What would you say if someone can replace bad memoirs? Would you dare to supersede them by others that are happier or just delete them? If your answer is yes, think twice; you have not been unlucky to bump with a distortionist. Samuel Tozer, an acclaimed journalist returns to his work environment to interview Russell Carpenter, a distortionist who recently arrived at the city. What the journalist really wants is that Russell removes two memories that made Samuel sank into an abyss, however, he doesn’t know the problems this will bring to his life; by wanting to get rid of his torment, he will be in a living hell.

Status
Ongoing
Chapters
1
Rating
n/a
Age Rating
13+

Preface


The world has pleasant and unpleasant memories regardless of who you are, where you live or your social status. The human memory is littered with these affable or harsh facts, but possibly you are speculating right now what are these reminiscences? I’ve always been someone who thinks that some concerns cannot be understood without having them previously elucidated.

Basically, a souvenir is a memory that is made of something that has already happened or a commemoration that we have already conferred. Still, it is unclear if it is something that belongs to our existence, because how much of it is existent? How much is just an image conceived by ourselves? The remembrances should be envisaged like something good because they have happened or something bad because they have been completed? Memoirs are the best gift which can allow us a cherished moment or is just the worst enemy of the mind?

To explain a little better this great maze of confusing information, the associative memory is based on links that we have established between elements without any relation, as for example the bell that proclaims the end of a break in a school. Non-associative memory is responsible for the generalized reaction to a stimulus which evokes a previous experience, as for example the anxiety that wakes up when we go through a traumatic experience.

It is assumed that these faithful memories always go along with us despite any circumstance, but what if unpleasant reminiscences could be wholly deleted, what if the pain, sorrow, and grief could be revoked or warped?

Good news for those who thought that this would be an upright idea! There are people, special individuals; only 3% of the world population has this illustrious aptitude if I can call it that way.

The characteristic of this ability is the faculty of modifying, change, replace or even erase those memories full of agony and distress. People who take care of this work are called distortionists.

They are very mysterious, strange and enigmatic people. They can play with your mind, and that is a downfall to any.

For me, unfortunately, it was a misfortune to find one of these, so take care of distortionists; they are dangerous, I ran with the misfortune of falling into one of their traps.