RENEWAL
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Last published Wed, Nov 29, 2023
Have you ever wondered what it was like to forget everything?
For Citizen 17467, it's the complete opposite. She wants nothing more than to remember.
Every year on The Last Day, every Citizen of Clarus forgets. It's for their own good. So that they might purge all of their failures and heartaches from the previous year in order to be the best version of themselves in the next.
Dazed and confused, Citizen 17467 must navigate a world she knows next to nothing about. She must even choose a new name for herself.
Just when she thinks things have finally settled into a comfortable routine, a new boy shows up in class one day. Nobody knows who he is or where he came from. And Citizen 17467 can't help but feel like she's met him before.
As they get to know each other, Citizen 17467 starts to catch feelings for this mysterious boy. But he might not be as mysterious as she thinks and as the truth starts to unfold, everything she's ever been told starts to unravel along with it.
Remembering is wrong.
Remembering holds you back.
But what if you found something so special, you wanted to hold onto it forever? How do you remember when everyone else is trying to make you forget?
Copyright © 2020 Miranda Smith
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