Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Taste of Memory
    The Taste of Memory
    The Taste of Memory
    Ebook28 pages36 minutes

    The Taste of Memory

    By M.H. Lee

    ()

    Switch to audiobook
    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Should You Give Someone What They Want Even If It Will Harm Them?

     

    Dmitri is a memory eraser, someone capable of removing the worst memories, the ones that haunt and pursue someone for the rest of their lives. He's the best. But to help those most in need he has to take on other clients, ones who can actually pay. When one of those clients demands that he give her painful memories to make her a better actress he has to decide. Does he say yes and harm her but help his other clients? Or does he say no to protect her from herself?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherM.H. Lee
    Release dateAug 21, 2020
    ISBN9781393778868

    Related to The Taste of Memory

    Related ebooks

    Psychological Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Three Little WORDS

      Aug 16, 2022

      Three Little WORDS
      6 min read

    • Article

      An ever-fixed MARK

      Nov 1, 2023

      An ever-fixed MARK
      6 min read

    • Article

      Freedom

      Aug 6, 2020

      Freedom
      7 min read

    • Article

      Running Away

      Feb 22, 2021

      Leaving London behind her, Millie drove faster, picturing thousands of crazed fans in pursuit, desperate for what – a lock of her hair? Or Julian; except after the last gig, somehow she knew he wouldn’t follow. She knew from bitter experience that di

      5 min read

    • Article

      Prey

      May 10, 2021

      As I drove slowly towards the mob of angry protestors and my meeting with 200, I thought of 199. The ashes of a once hard man, staring at me with wide eyes that pleaded for hope like a dog begging for treats. I’d somehow found a way to give him that

      41 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Jan 1, 2024

      I’ve always been an easy crier (let it come, not ashamed, never held it back in joy or grief, and wherever … subway, teaching, grocery store, (oh the desolate grocery store during the height of Covid) but now, the welling up: that’s daily now. —Lia P

      5 min read

    • Article

      To Live a Little

      Oct 3, 2022

      To Live a Little
      13 min read

    • Article

      On Death Row, There's No Such Thing As Closure

      Aug 2, 2019

      It is August of the year 2000, and I am cold. I know the sun is shining outside, but there are no windows in the courtroom. The lighting is subdued, darker in the back where spectators sit and lighter in the front where tragedies play out—like a the

      5 min read

    • Article

      O Fortuna, Velut Luna

      Sep 15, 2018

      What is Miss Treece’s trouble, according to a popular notion? The man A has failed to show up. Arousing herself at the restaurant, she fixes her lipstick when her solo supper concludes and takes herself down the stairs situated behind the bar. There,

      3 min read

    • Article

      Prey

      Mar 10, 2024

      As I drove slowly toward the mob of angry protestors and my meeting with 200, I thought of 199. The ashes of a once hard man, staring at me with wide eyes that pleaded for hope like a dog begging for treats. I’d somehow found a way to give him that h

      41 min read

    • Article

      A Little About Why

      Jun 1, 2023

      A Little About Why
      15 min read

    • Article

      All My Tomorrows

      May 10, 2022

      It was Misha’s first day minding the shop, and already she’d broken the fifth rule. Always lock the door immediately. When you had the most valuable merchandise in the universe, you had to take the utmost precautions. She hadn’t meant to disobey. It

      13 min read

    • Article

      A Gentle STIRRING

      Mar 13, 2024

      A Gentle STIRRING
      6 min read

    • Article

      From ESTRANGEMENT

      May 1, 2022

      From ESTRANGEMENT
      4 min read

    • Article

      Learning to Grieve

      Sep 1, 2020

      Learning to Grieve
      9 min read

    • Article

      We Don't Talk About That Here

      Nov 4, 2021

      We Don't Talk About That Here
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Leather Coat

      Apr 4, 2024

      The Leather Coat
      6 min read

    • Article

      Dancing

      Sep 1, 2022

      Dancing
      14 min read

    • Article

      That Cigarette

      May 20, 2021

      That Cigarette
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Machine Stops

      Dec 28, 2018

      The Machine Stops
      6 min read

    • Article

      Summer Of Love

      Jun 22, 2022

      Summer Of Love
      15 min read

    • Article

      Longer on Moon

      Sep 22, 2022

      Longer on Moon
      19 min read

    • Article

      Mrs Macarthur’s Secret Diary

      Jun 17, 2020

      Mrs Macarthur’s Secret Diary
      7 min read

    • Article

      Ben Marcus

      Jun 15, 2018

      My wife, Gin, once knocked gently on my head, as if it were a door. “Hello,” she kept saying. “Hello. Who’s in there?” She and our therapist, Dr. Sherby, laughed a little about this, so I did, too. What fun. Keep knocking on my head like that, like i

      23 min read

    • Article

      Mrs Macarthur’s Secret Diary

      Jun 17, 2020

      Mrs Macarthur’s Secret Diary
      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Taste of Memory

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Taste of Memory - M.H. Lee

      The Taste of Memory

      Also by M.H. Lee

      When the Time Comes and Other Stories

      The following short stories which are part of the collection are also available on an individual basis in ebook format:

      The Bearer *

      The Price We Pay *

      Death Answered My Call *

      Drowning In Their Darkness *

      To Be A Hero

      The Taste of Memory

      In Search of a Frickin' Hero

      By Your Side When the Sun Sets

      Titles with an * were also previously included in the essay and short story collection A World Dark & Cold which is no longer available for purchase.

      The Taste of Memory

      The smells are the hardest to remove. That whiff of cinnamon as she turns the corner in the early morning that takes her back to the first time he cornered her in the back of her mother's bakery when her mother was out on deliveries.

      Or the zest of lemon that was on his hands as he covered her mouth and pushed her into the little office where her mother's bills and recipes were strewn across the table.

      The core memory—that hour of violation—is easy to find and erase. Dmitri can cut and snip it away in a moment, stitching the before and after together as if that hour never existed. But what makes him a master of memory, what makes him the most accomplished memory eraser working, is the way he handles the smells. And the touches. The echoes that reverberate from that moment forward.

      An amateur will stop with the core memory. Snip it out. Stitch it up. Collect their two-fifty and move on to the next. Snip, stitch, next, over and over again. Five minutes, ten, and they're done.

      But a moment like hers. A moment of fear and desperation. A moment when the

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1