The Rememberer
B.F. Accardi
language
(, April 10, 2017)
Walt Walters hates garage sales. But every Saturday, his father drags Walt and his sisters to every garage sale in town to hunt up bargains. On an unusually blustery day, a kindly man offers Walt an old briefcase from his sale items. Walt is less than excited at the offer, but at home he finds an old diary inside the briefcase written by a young girl, seventy years earlier. The diary ends abruptly, but when Walt goes back to it the next day, he finds that more diary entries have appeared where the writng had stopped. And even more entries appear when he shows the diary to his friend Celia. In the diary, the young girl, Alice Shaworth, tells of mysterious events in her life, including tremors no one else can feel, family members who become "frozen" while she can still move about, and a blaring light that appears under the doorway that leads to her attic. When Walt and Celia investigate Alice Shaworth's life they discover that she disappeared decades earlier and was never found. And then, the strange events that Alice recorded in her diary begin happening to Walt. His house begins shaking but no one in the family seems to notice. His father and sisters become frozen and he cannot shake them out of it, and they can't remember it when they come out of their trance. And a strange light emanating from his attic leads him to investigate. There he finds a panel missing from the roof of his house, with an intense light blazing from it. When he tries to run away, he is pulled by an unseen force toward the light, toward the world of forgetting on the other side, toward Paralleladise where he will unravel an old mystery, save an old friend, and meet the Rememberer.