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When It's So Easy to Remember That You Forget to Think

“First thing that popped into my head,” you reply sheepishly. She also knows that no one reveals anything to the help, because it never means anything to them.

You’ve been lying on the makeshift rack converted from a surgical table, staring into the fluorescent lighting. It’s a subtle trick, but the harsh quality of the light floods a subject’s visual receptors, and overloads the visual cortex. Other brain function usually slows, and the subject as a result will sing like a canary.

You’ve been squinting, but still your rods and cones are flooded. When she’s undone all your restraints, she moves to the head of the table. The silhouette of her head breaks the light and gives you a chance to focus.

“Ascot is not the word we want,” she demurs.

“But it’s a good password!” You’re pushing it. “Nobody ever uses ‘one’ or ‘1-2-3-4-5’ because it has to be so personally meaningful, you know?”

Despite knowing the light trick, you’re too chatty. They’ve given you something, and it’s totally snuck up on you.

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When It's So Easy to Remember That You Forget to Think
THX 0477
Posted 6 months ago

Ooh, kill her! Kill her! Sorry, just my first impulse since the restraints are off, or are they? But I suppose he’s drugged. I like the little bit of dialog. It’s funny stuff.
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emma jo_234
Posted 6 months ago

Yeah, funny stuff like THX said. I read all these and I really like ‘em. The light trick – that’s a neat bit of information! I really like the last line too. I really want to know what happens. Sequel!!
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gemminx
Posted 5 months ago

Great detail and momentum!
When It's So Easy to Remember That You Forget to Think
thebetweenspace
Posted 5 months ago

I like that while ‘you’ know most of the tricks, the drugs snuck up on ‘you’. Also, I’m enjoying this series because it uses the 2nd person singular tense so affectively (I’ve tried it and it never works for me).