Some memories are designed to save you.
Other memories may destroy you.
The ScentofForgetting
A Maya Sutton Novel
M10 — deepest
The story
Maya Sutton is a paramedic. She is steady in the back of an ambulance, warm off the clock, and very good at noticing things.
Then a patient in the back of her rig recites one of Maya's own memories back to her — a tender, private childhood moment, repeated word for word, and named as a lie. Soon she is noticing the same pattern in other patients: memories that match, built the same way, that could not have happened.
Then her own past begins to give way.
A photograph contradicts a memory she would swear to. Records refuse to line up with the life she remembers. A man she remembers loving tells her, kindly, that they were never together. And through all of it she feels watched — and starts to wonder about the man asleep beside her, whose timing was always a little too perfect.
She is right that someone is watching her. She may be wrong about everything else.
Three ways to lose yourself
The evidence doubts her
Photographs, records and dates stop lining up, and each answer she finds opens a harder question.
She doubts him
Her fear starts building a case against the man who loves her — the timing, the watchfulness, the secrets he keeps.
She doubts herself
When your memory is the only witness, who do you believe?
Be the first to remember
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