The Ghostwriter

by Julie Clark

“You can’t erase the past by not thinking about it.”

But film won’t lie the way memories do. I want a record of things that happen so people can’t brush off my feelings and tell me I’m overreacting, or I don’t understand.

People’s recollections are tinted with their own biases. Their beliefs, layered over the top, sometimes rendering a completely different meaning.

I sit with that for a moment, thinking again of how tricky memory can be. Of how our brains will lead us toward a story that fits into our own worldview, and no amount of evidence can convince us otherwise.