Imperfect Memories (Temporal Shift, Book 1) by Jody Wenner

Release date: February 16, 2018

Subgenre: Psychological thriller

About Imperfect Memories:

 

After losing her husband and daughter in an all-too-common act of senseless terror, Nina Rogers thinks she might also be losing her mind. Is she slipping because of the tragedy, or is her memory actually failing her? Is she experiencing the same thing her mother did, or is this something different? It might be easy to figure out in a normal person, but Nina is anything but normal. She has hyperthymesia: the ability to recall every minute of every day of her life. 

As the days go on, she sinks even deeper into madness and knows that she needs to find some answers to what is happening to her before it’s too late. Tragically, the one person who may be able to help is also the man who killed her family. 

 

Excerpt:

 

Midwest Regional Newsfeed

Sunday, May 22

It has been determined that a half-dozen small paper bags left inside of three businesses on Main Street in the Evergreen community yesterday were filled with explosives that killed six people, including a nine-year-old girl and her father. The other victims were a couple in their twenties, a retired female, and the building manager, age 32. Two cafe employees who were stationed behind the counter of Elmer’s were both injured. A fireman was also hurt when a partial collapse of the brick wall occurred while he was trying to get the remaining injured and trapped victims out of the building. The fireman and baristas are expected to recover from their non-life-threatening injuries.

As to why the bombs were left, it’s still unclear. No terrorist organizations have come forward to take responsibility. Because of this, authorities believe it was likely an individual act of random violence.

Surveillance footage from inside and outside of the area is being examined, and an investigation is ongoing. If any witnesses saw anything unusual, they are being asked to contact the Terror Hotline.  

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Nina wanted nothing more than to forget, only she could not. She had a condition called hyperthymesia. She remembered every second of every minute of every day of her life.

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Excerpt from Wikipedia:

American neurobiologists Elizabeth Parker, Larry Cahill, and James McGaugh identified two defining characteristics of hyperthymesia: spending an excessive amount of time thinking about one's past and displaying an extraordinary ability to recall specific events from one's past.[1] The word "hyperthymesia" derives from Ancient Greek: hyper- ("excessive") and thymesis ("remembering"). 

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  The way Nina saw it, she was cursed with a blessing—or perhaps blessed with a curse. Her super-memory, on the one hand, allowed her to recall all of the amazing details of her life exactly how she’d experienced them. Her reality, the events that shaped her and the world around her, everything she took in visually, worked like a rolling filmstrip in her head. She could virtually rewind and fast-forward to days as if they were a permanent pictorial Rolodex. She had no idea how or why it worked like this, it just did and had since she was a young girl. She hadn’t trained her brain, nor had she experienced any sort of traumatic head injury as a kid. She hadn’t been abused. She had no mental illnesses. Her childhood and upbringing had been incredibly normal for the most part. There wasn’t anything exceptional about Nina Rogers except for the fact that she remembered everything.

 

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About Jody Wenner: 

Jody Wenner started writing for her high school newspaper and was hooked when one of her op eds made it to the local gazette, prompting a response from the editor. She is a Twin Cities native. When not spending time being a wife and mother, you will find her crafting up a storm.