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    What She Won't Remember
    What She Won't Remember
    What She Won't Remember
    Ebook39 pages27 minutes

    What She Won't Remember

    By Michelle Sagara

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    A short story of 6.5k words, originally published in Alternate Outlaws, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg.

    When the heart of her writing and her work is denigrated, a tired, exhausted writer is drawn into a game that feels like freedom by a man who says civilization is based not on civility, but fear. The fearless can do anything.

    Anything at all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRosdan Press
    Release dateMay 10, 2020
    What She Won't Remember
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    Michelle Sagara

    New York Times bestselling author Michelle Sagara writes as both Michelle Sagara and Michelle West; she is also published as Michelle Sagara West. She lives in Toronto with her long-suffering husband and her two children, and to her regret has no dogs. She can be found @msagara on Twitter or http://msagarawest.wordpress.com

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      What She Won't Remember - Michelle Sagara

      What She Won’t Remember

      What She Won’t Remember

      Michelle Sagara

      Rosdan Press

      Contents

      Introduction

      What She Won’t Remember

      About the Author

      Also by Michelle West

      Also by Michelle Sagara

      Other Short Stories

      Introduction

      Mike Resnick made his early anthology name collecting alternate histories from various writers, of which I was one. This was for Alternate Outlaws.

      I’m not much of a historian, and I honestly haven’t read a lot about outlaws, and I was pretty new to short fiction and to writing in general—or at least published writing.

      I also had very little in the way of functional brain; when I wrote it, my son was not yet a year old, and sleep was almost a myth in the household. I explained all this to Resnick, who was not terribly impressed when I told him I couldn’t even think of an outlaw that I’d want to research, and even if I could, I didn’t trust myself, strung out on lack of sleep, to do a good enough job that I’d be coherent.

      Resnick then came up with suggestions for various possibilities, and when I offered the electronic equivalent of a blank stare, he explained that my definition of what he wanted was far, far too narrow.

      As it had been for Alternate Celebrities. So I went and thought about it, and this is what I came up with.

      What She Won’t Remember

      1.

      "Y ou know nothing about the criminal mind. You sit there in your affected modesty, while you derive some incomprehensible satisfaction from your ‘art’. And you know nothing, understand nothing, explain nothing ."

      These were the only words that stayed with her at the end of the long luncheon — a charity luncheon at which she had been the honoured guest. The words themselves had been uttered in the quietest of tones, and the speaker carried himself well. He spoke with the most placid of smiles, but his eyes — his eyes conveyed the depth of his words. She could not forget them.

      Of course I don’t know anything about the criminal mind. Her hat and parasol were taken from her; her shawl and her gloves followed. She took her seat at the bench and watched absently as her boots were unlaced.

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