‘Memory’ by Borges

The windows were mirrors. When he stared out through them, he found his own room stretched at different angles outside. Unlike a mirror, however, he could step inside (which was also outside) through a window.

When he stepped out to one of these imaginary rooms stretched at different angles through the window (which was also a door, a mirror, a reflected door and a reflected mirror), he found that this room too had windows. As he stared outside (which was also inside), he found his own room stretched at different angles outside.

That’s when he realized that there was exactly one room. One circular room (which was also spherical, cubical and triangular) constructed such, that all windows would lead to itself.

He closed the windows; thereby eliminating the room forever.

Death: An Introduction

He dismissed her memories as dark thoughts because she disappeared with the night.

He dismissed himself too, as dark thoughts because he disappeared within her.

Amnesia: An Introduction

She used to sign her name on the water. Rowing in the lake.

He tried to reach there with his hands, trying to touch her poetic alphabets. Her name rippled away.

Welcome to Le Bédouins

Formula

She wanted him to be precise. But for the moments that went unnoticed, he often rounded-off her memories.

Evaluating The Headphones

He pressed his fingers into her thoughts. He infused different hues of sadism into her memories. If she’d scream he still remembers her.

She had crashed into silence the last time he remembered her voice.

Memory Game

When they were shifting places, she had been carrying some of his words. Accidentally, that day, some of those slipped and shattered on the floor.

They couldn’t talk of their past ever again.