Submitted by Frances on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 10:03pm

June 28 for June Writing Prompt
Timing
It’s my job, of course. Even though  this looked to be an unpleasant part of it. The man, the subject, was dressed well, groomed well, but he had . . . terrible vibrations. Maybe it was the slight smirk he didn’t bother to conceal
We began. I sat in the investigator’s comfortable chair, and the subject stood between two wardens, about seven feet in from of me—the usual procedure in a hostile investigation. The clerk read the usual statement—you are to be tracked into your past to find the truth of the incident under investigation. I worked to clear my mind—it has never been proven that the investigator’s feelings affect the tracking, but we try very hard to avoid the possibility.
And so I began, stilling the room as I focused on the man, then working my way into the frame of mind for tracking. The required three witnesses leaned forward intently, recording machines at the ready. I reached the necessary concentration and began to disconnect from the present. We followed the man, in nebulous form, back through his entrance into my office, back through his escorted journey here, back, back through the previous two days. We arrived at his arrest.
(Not sure where this should go yet, will tackle tomorrow.)

June 28 for June Writing Prompt
Spring Cleaning
I hate these yearly appointments, but the law says we have to. Have to go and get plugged into the sinkhole where all our deleted memories are stored. If I wanted those memories, I’d have kept them. There’s nothing too horrible in mine--at least that’s my impression. They’re only a level one, and I have no official notes on them the way people with really nasty memories have. But I came out of last year’s session with a brand new memory, a rather tattered one, no specific details, of having lived through a whole lot of unpleasant little mortifications and humiliations. Better than  having to live with them actually in my brain all the time, I suppose. But why can’t I just forget them entirely? .
(Should this be turned into a mystery? Will think before continuing this tomorrow.)

June 28 for June Writing Prompt
Sunday
Iconic
Now what is this? I don’t remember installing any such thing. How odd. It a nice little icon, whatever it is, a jewel like little eternity symbol. Hmm, Windows has no information on it. Anti-virus gives no warnings. Should I just get rid of it? But my system is all backed up as of this morning and I’m curious. So I’ll just ..
Sunday
Iconic
Where did that little eternity icon come from? I never saw it before. What does it . . .

I can't connect these three sections into one story line but each has great potential on its own. In the first you follow a prisoner's memories back in time. Do they loop or do they cause the investigators memories to loop? All kinds of possibilities.

In the second we can forget whatever we want but are forced by law to remember thoe forgotten memories once a year. That's a another great premise. All kinds of things you can do with that.

And the third seems to be about a computer virus that induces memory loss on the user. What did the user do that was erased? Is the government doing this or criminals? Again all kinds of posibilities. Hope you write at least one of them.

What I was fumbling towards was a story where the actual writer is the protagonist, the one caught in a loop. Or loops, here. However the only things showing this are the dates. I haven't yet come up with a better way of saying it. Can you think of anything?