★★★☆☆
Veteran living in a future San Francisco suffers from PTSD despite the memory-wipe treatment given by the military. (2,800 words; Time: 09m)
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"How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War," by Rose Lemberg [bio] (edited by John Joseph Adams), appeared in Lightspeed Magazine issue 61, published on June 1, 2015.
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The story absorbs you into the narrator's world and makes its horrors seem very real. The juxtaposition of the joyful people the narrator sees with the violence and explosions that haunt him/her makes the narrator's aberrant behavior understandable.
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The story absorbs you into the narrator's world and makes its horrors seem very real. The juxtaposition of the joyful people the narrator sees with the violence and explosions that haunt him/her makes the narrator's aberrant behavior understandable.
Other Reviews: Search Web
Rose Lemberg Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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