What's more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award-winning author explores the answer in a chilling story about identity and human consciousness.
Imagine you've woken up in an unfamiliar room with no memory of who you are, how you got there, or where you were before. All you have is the disconnected voice of an attentive caretaker. Dr. Kuhn is there to help you-physically, emotionally, and psychologically. She'll help you remember everything. She'll make sure you reclaim your lost identity. Now answer one question: Are you sure you want to?
Paul Tremblay's The Last Conversation is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.
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(Amazon Original Stories, 17 September 2019, 56 pages, ebook, borrowed from @AmazonKindle #PrimeReading)
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This is another so-so read in the Forward collection. I've read the author before and to be honest I'm not a massive fan so I didn't really expect much from this story. I enjoyed the second person narrator but that's about the only thing. The story is just too vague and confusing and I didn't start to realise what was going on until almost at the end. I still don't fully understand what I read. I expected this to be a horror story but I didn't really see this as the story is more psychological horror. The story is creepy and unnerving. The story builds tension well with the unnamed character being unable to see and depending on the guidance from a disembodied voice.
