‘MEMORY MAN’ – FLASH FICTION – JOHN WHEATLEY
It was his blessing and his curse. He remembered everything. So, of course, he passed all his exams with flying colours. Nothing was ever lost. Good or bad. Everything was still there. And it took only the tiniest of promptings to bring it back. Dates, formulas, lists of figures, of facts, incidents, bus timetables. There was no end of it. Once, when he was eleven, he witnessed an armed robbery in a local Spa shop, and when the police questioned him as a witness, he could give them such accurate detail that they eyed him suspiciously, obviously thinking he was making some of it up, which he wasn’t. He was better than the CCTV. He tried to talk a mate. People said talking to someone could help. A problem shared… But his mate immediately referred to Memory Man, the music hall act in The 39 Steps. Great film! his mate said. No, it’s not like that, he tried to explain. But that was what got him his nickname. Like Memory Man in The 39 Steps. A bit of a freak. And he couldn’tShare Post a commentREAD MORE
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JOHN WHEATLEY, WRITER
Writer of short stories, and novel, some historical, some contemporary set in Anglesey, North Wales; Middleton, near Manchester; West Yorkshire.
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‘MEMORY MAN’ – FLASH FICTION – JOHN WHEATLEY
It was his blessing and his curse. He remembered everything. So, of course, he passed all his exams with flying colours. Nothing was ever lost. Good or bad. Everything was still there. And it took only the tiniest of promptings to bring it back. Dates, formulas, lists of figures, of facts, incidents, bus timetables. There was no end of it. Once, when he was eleven, he witnessed an armed robbery in a local Spa shop, and when the police questioned him as a witness, he could give them such accurate detail that they eyed him suspiciously, obviously thinking he was making some of it up, which he wasn’t. He was better than the CCTV. He tried to talk a mate. People said talking to someone could help. A problem shared… But his mate immediately referred to Memory Man, the music hall act in The 39 Steps. Great film! his mate said. No, it’s not like that, he tried to explain. But that was what got him his nickname. Like Memory Man in The 39 Steps. A bit of a freak. And he couldn’tShare Post a commentREAD MORE
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