Ah... another cracker from you @cliffagreen ... the pace was fantastic... creating the perfect level of suspense too! I felt sure he would be innocent, given his own apparent perception of his situation... but perhaps the only potential giveaway was his lack of outrage at his predicament. It is more of a calm cold defiance... and this line...

I don’t want to remember the girl

(although it is only in hindsight that I see this... as I was thinking at the time that he simply refused to be tricked into an admission of unfounded guilt; that he did not want to remember potentially what others may have done to the girl)

I think you handled the reveal brilliantly - a very poetic imagining of cognition finally hitting... the use of exceptional imagery brings the reader to the moment where the accused has to face up to what he has done after burying every thought of it beneath layers of associated memories... which ultimately lead back to the truth of his unconscionable actions.

I dropped in from #dreemport this evening. And pretty pleased that I did. It is always a treat to read you!

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