"It's just emotion that's taken me over..."

I recently read, "Memories endure when associated with emotionally intense events." It started me thinking about the variety of emotions such as anger, hurt, love, anticipation and trust and how they shape memories. So I experimented with writing about those moments without explicitly telling how I felt.

1. Walking home from the grade school bus stop, seven blocks later, I would turn west to face the setting sun for half a block before the final stretch down the alley. In January the setting s...