Forget What You Can't Remember

Thanks for listening. If you enjoyed Forget What You Can't Remember, please look for my other titles on Podiobooks.com, including: More Lost Memories (short stories that tie into Forget What You Can't Remember), Cheating, Death (a zombie novel), Lost and Not Found, Dragons' Truth, & the first three books of a series called "Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction - Recollections of an Alternate Past".

In which Lorraine and the Sergeant discuss how all his plans and aspirations have been torn apart, seemly all at once, and then Paul and Mary discuss his putting a stop to all future attempts to undo doomsday after what happened to Fantastician in his machine.

In which Paul and Fantastician discuss, over lunch, the counterintuitive repercussions of the heroic actions which saved Skythia -and the rest of the Solar System- from Brady's doomsday devices and then, after lunch, Paul uses his machine to try to restore Fantastician's memories.

In which Fantastician flies toward the sun, and toward Brady's doomsday device, at incredible speeds requiring his advanced knowledge of math and physics to save the day, then returns to Skythia to stop Brady's next, nano-scale, attempt to destroy the world.

In which Paul and Colm witness Fantastician's participation in the Sergeant's mixed martial arts competition as it takes a terrible turn, and then Fantastician briefly confronts Brady between frantic dashes to destroy his doomsday devices.

In which Fantastician discusses ethics, zombies, martial arts, and memory loss with Paul, before trying to help with the mathematics Paul's machine were based on.

In which Mary explains to Paul, in a way he finally begins to understand, why she doesn't want him to use his machine on her to restore her memories of before Doomsday - but ends up leaving him, anyway.

In which Brady and Colm, the mayor of Skythia, discuss how the lack of zombies in Denver will effect his plans to destroy the infested city with his Doomsday device.

In which Fantastician explains his various super powers to the Sergeant, and explains the details of the Denver zombie cleanup to a group of Skythians.

In which Fantastician reaches Denver and sets himself to the long, hard, solitary work of cleaning it of zombies and of the damage they wrought there.

In which Fantastician encounters a battlefield whose complexities and ethical uncertainty serve mainly to unhinge him from any sense of direction or purpose, even after he takes dramatic action to bring the conflict to a rapid conclusion.

In which Fantastician interrupts a group of murderous thieves as they storm a Kwytzwik Temple, and finds himself thrust further along his path of realizing the oblivion he hadn't noticed in himself.

In which the deep personal and ethical quest of Fantastician (also known as Job) begins with a chance encounter in a deep, dark forest that climaxes in a nearly failed rescue.

In which the Sergeant discusses the subtle and complicated smellscape his dangerous animals habitat will be employing with the scent expert installing the system that will create it, and then discusses the competitive mixed martial arts group that he's found himself having to create.

In which Paul and Mary discuss his ideas about trying to build a machine capable of restoring memories -and perhaps also people, places, and things- from before Doomsday removed them from the world.

In which Paul and Brady get into further detail about Brady's dissociative disorder, consider the fine line between perception and awareness, and Brady reveals his idea of something worth living for. Also: The image on the book's cover was partially inspired by a scene in this chapter, and partially by how the concept explored in that scene applies to the entire experience of reading this book.

In which Mary discovers the disreputable background of Paul's psychiatrist, she and Paul discuss the actual cause of his mental unbalance, and they read his mysteriously surviving novel about the Doomsday come and gone.

In which Lance and Brady discuss Paul's relationship with Mary, some of the extreme body modifications available in Skythia, and the challenge of getting into Skythia's top culinary school without good references.

In which Lorraine and the Sergeant discuss his plans to clone rare and extinct dangerous creatures and fight them, in a series of cage matches, to the death.

In which Paul and Brady meet coincidentally in the lobby of a psychiatrist's office and discuss disappointment, disassociation, and Skythia's radical, pro-active resident wellness program.

In which Lance refutes Brady's paranoid suspicion that Skythia must have a dark underbelly or some secretly repressed group on board, and Paul has a panic attack so severe it results in an emergency medical response.

In which the Sergeant and Lorraine discuss the personal and political ramifications of living in Skythia.

In which Paul and Mary walk the circumference of Skythia while discussing the silence and distance still lingering about her, two weeks after the rescue at Denver.

In which Paul, Mary, and other survivors of the zombie outbreak begin going through Skythia's full orientation while waiting for their quarantine period to end before they are allowed into the city proper.

In which the survivors in Denver prepare for Skythia's arrival, Paul arranges to be among the Skythians heading to the surface to meet them, and then Paul and Mary meet for the first time.

In which, on the third day after hiding the world and the time from Skythia, Paul gives the go-ahead to switch everything back on and look around, allowing Skythians to find out that Denver has been lost to zombies.

In which Lance and Brady, while running through the zombie-infested streets of Denver, discuss their current predicament.

In which Skythia's navigation and timekeeping systems are all either shut off or randomized -to keep any Skythians from being able to see or even know when Doomsday hits- and Colm shows Paul the city's transportation network and its awe-inspiring skyline.

In which the Sergeant first hears about a zombie outbreak near Denver he's partially responsible for, we learn that he ended up with Lorraine rather than Mary, and Lance and Brady set out to try to finish their training in time to face the Denver outbreak.

In which Paul makes his escape from the Doomsday he’s been predicting, arriving via private flight to Skythia -a flying city- in the middle of the night and being met by the city’s Mayor, Colm O’Reiley, who is eager to do whatever it takes to protect the city.

In which Paul and Eddie discuss the financial viability of the novel which Paul wrote in less than a month about the Doomsday now only a few days away.

In which Lance sets Brady straight about the zombie survival training camp they’re both headed to, Mary talks Lorraine into attending the same camp with her, and the two head trainers there discuss running the camp without the Sergeant.